About Me | Leonard Clinton Williams III
Striving to be Something I Can Never be
UPDATE: I have added some details about me on my about this website page which you can go to by clicking here.
Page Coming Soon. For now, here is some relevant text from a letter I sent to the United States Department of Justice:
My life is hard to explain. This is one reason I valued my privacy above all else. In the end, however, I have nothing to hide concerning my conduct and my character.
In re my conduct, there is plenty that I wish didn’t exist. My defense for the worst of my behaviors is that I have no defense. My actions were indefensible. If I ever hurt someone and they bring it up, I am not likely to attempt to hide it. It is immoral to lie about people you have wronged. I just tell the cold hard truth, that there is no defending any of it. I may have insights that add color and background to the wrongs I have done, but in the end, there is no defending me. There is no defending any single one of us. This is what it means to be human.
What I can defend is my efforts and my striving. That even as I have failed at times, I have strived and put real effort into being a good person. This effort is a trend over my life. I strive to be something that I know that I can never be on an enduring basis. In the end, this effort is all that can really count and all that I can be judged by. We have to judge ourselves relative to others and relative to previous versions of ourselves. We have to judge relatively because judging by an absolute standard we all fail.
About my Life Ⅰ