Our first year married, we rented a condo unit. For the first two weeks, we were constantly witness to a woman screaming at her children like nobody should ever have to do. We were so torn between acting and not acting. Finally, we agreed that the children were alone in the family and unable to help themselves. Who would help them if we did nothing? Obviously there were others that heard the ravings and did nothing. People that had lived there much longer than we had at the time. We called Child Protective Services. It took us a week to get over the guilt, and what did it was watching her react soooooooooo much more positively with her children. I truly think had it ever been discovered that we were the ones that reported her, she would've thanked us.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.