As the festive bells fall silent and an auspicious year has pleasantly broken upon us, we may turn wistful faces away from the year just ended, and perhaps gaze with exquisite hope, fragrant resolve, and keen determination embalmed in a spirit of flush excitement to what this year has in store for us.

Nevertheless, no matter what a new year holds up its sleeves, there remains a fixed fact that repeats itself with unerring regularity that one person’s misfortune might well be another person’s fortune. And in view of the last few days, I feel impelled to indite a follow-up piece to my last article, Did KKD Go Against His Own Morals? Any other related article will come after the verdict.

While the year seems to be in its cushy cradle or inchoate stage, already New Year resolutions are tottering to the ground like shaky thrones. Cardinally predicated upon the ongoing KKD saga and my firm belief that the lives of both accused and complainant will change forever, I may yet posit a more personal and intriguing question: KKD Today, Who Next?

Would it be me, or you are next? Or, perhaps someone you know? If life teaches us one solid truth, it is that the good are capable of committing odious, heinous, opprobrious acts; on the contrary, the bad, the wayward, the malevolent on occasion can demonstrate acts of such consummate sweetness, such refreshing fidelity, and such splendid charm. No person has absolute perfection, and the reverse is equally applicable. It is rare to find anyone who does not have any skeletons in their closet. Yes, we all have them. I know mine. Are you aware of yours?

Have you discovered your true condition? It was an Old Testament prophet who sounded out a timeless truth worth repeating. With characteristic precision and poise he posed the interminable question: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

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