San Diego Portrait Photographer–My Friend Jon

Filed under : Portraits by Ben and Kirin on 31-07-2011

This is my friend Jon.

He’s a humble guy, self-effacing, quiet, very centered. Jon is the chief psychologist at Paradise Valley Hospital’s Behavioral Health Services where his job is to help people who have become lost within themselves. He’s become one of my heroes.

Jon is heroic to me, not because of some grand financial achievement, or because he won academic or intellectual accolades. He’s a hero because he’s one of the few people I know who had the courage and ability to follow his conscience and do something to help his fellow men and women. The fact that he even has a conscience is a pretty remarkable thing, these days.

One of my favorite definitions of heroism is the willingness to do the decent thing in the face of an absurd world. This fit’s Jon to a T.

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