41st Fall [voice]
[Public, but meant to be filtered from the Winchesters and Ruby]
Do you believe there's a difference between understanding, acceptance, and forgiveness?
That one can understand another's actions and yet not retain any good feelings towards them.
That once can accept those same actions, and remain friends - though the wound is still there, an unbridgeable gap and a barrier to trust.
That only with forgiveness comes a return of affection and... trust.
Can you live with the lines between them, somewhere in the gray, or is it better to be a creature of absolutes? Black or white? All or nothing? Total forgiveness or perpetual enmity?
...What does it mean to you to be truly forgiven?
[ooc: Someone's feeling introspective in her self-imposed exile.]
Do you believe there's a difference between understanding, acceptance, and forgiveness?
That one can understand another's actions and yet not retain any good feelings towards them.
That once can accept those same actions, and remain friends - though the wound is still there, an unbridgeable gap and a barrier to trust.
That only with forgiveness comes a return of affection and... trust.
Can you live with the lines between them, somewhere in the gray, or is it better to be a creature of absolutes? Black or white? All or nothing? Total forgiveness or perpetual enmity?
...What does it mean to you to be truly forgiven?
[ooc: Someone's feeling introspective in her self-imposed exile.]