What's more important - self preservation or forgiveness?
Self-preservation. Because forgiveness is useless if you're dead.
I'm not saying that forgiveness doesn't have its uses sometimes or that it's an entirely bad thing, but really. Someone places a wand in your face and hits you with an Unforgivable or three, and you just sit there and....forgive them? That's stupid. And fatal. And I really fucking like breathing so I'm more likely to break a few ribs, make them good and bloody, and generally fight for my life.
But forgiveness...it's not all bad. So long as you earn it. Because there's really no point in just getting forgiveness for free. Paying penance and all that, whether in "Hail, Mary"s or in...bruises or something similar. I mean...we've all got something we desperately should atone for. So trying to earn forgiveness isn't all bad.
Though....if the choice is saying I'm sorry or saving my own very precious life? I'm gonna choose me.
Though I was wrong about "love at first sight"...at least concerning really seeing certain people for the first time. I could be wrong about this too.
Muse: Marcus Flint
Fandom: Harry Potter
Word Count: 186
I'm not saying that forgiveness doesn't have its uses sometimes or that it's an entirely bad thing, but really. Someone places a wand in your face and hits you with an Unforgivable or three, and you just sit there and....forgive them? That's stupid. And fatal. And I really fucking like breathing so I'm more likely to break a few ribs, make them good and bloody, and generally fight for my life.
But forgiveness...it's not all bad. So long as you earn it. Because there's really no point in just getting forgiveness for free. Paying penance and all that, whether in "Hail, Mary"s or in...bruises or something similar. I mean...we've all got something we desperately should atone for. So trying to earn forgiveness isn't all bad.
Though....if the choice is saying I'm sorry or saving my own very precious life? I'm gonna choose me.
Though I was wrong about "love at first sight"...at least concerning really seeing certain people for the first time. I could be wrong about this too.
Muse: Marcus Flint
Fandom: Harry Potter
Word Count: 186