Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
kindness compassion evil
We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.
shoes people revolution
Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
opposites want too-much
I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
tragedy benefits
The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
the-end-of-the-day kind ends
At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?
father people parent
I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.
differences people comforting
I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
errors looks done
I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
growing-up people damage
I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
connections deep-connections upbringing
I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
meaningful children growing-up
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.
despair
Despair is part of love.
loss would-be different
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
despair mysterious stills
Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.