Adnon Syed I Believe You

In the last episode of serial, Sarah Koenig finally breaks the wall. In reading the letter that Adnon wrote, I finally understood him. To live with a life sentence for 15 years, making his life inside. But now, serial is bringing this all out into the world again.  For him to be judged. Again.

That's why I say, I believe you. 

When else in society do we have the right to judge someone? Sure, we make our own perceptions and carefully log them away somewhere in our heads, some of us who are considered gossips may talk more about people than others, but in the end it's considered impolite. 

When you become a suspect in any crime all of that flys out the window. Your character and entire life become an object that people feel completely entitled  to dissect and desecrate. 

Why do we do this? 

Like Adnon said, he began to feel like a monster. Why would all these people he had considered friends turn against him? Say so many bad things? Believe that he could do something so horrible and then make more judgements on his character that don't stand up to any scrutiny. 

Maybe you luckily have never experienced this. 

But he came to the same conclusion that I once did. You cannot control people's perceptions of you. They see what they see. 

I believe you because you know this.