Hey now. Not everyone is on here constantly and able to check how this updates every five minutes.
Although, with a lot of the people.. that probably isn't a huge stretch. So maybe that's just one or two people, and the rest are.. yes. I've found, though, that there's an inverse relationship to how important something is and sounds, to how likely someone is to say something to it. I'm gonna pin it on fear, because, I like pinning things on fear. It seems fitting.
That being said.. your history hasn't really changed my opinion of you. At least, not how you were thinking it might. More of, how you wrote it, and what you said about it made more of an impression. It's in the past, and people change. That's a given. Having done some stupid ass thing years ago really doesn't have a lot of meaning these days, especially during teenage years with so much change. People have a funny way of being a world apart from one year to the next, even while staying entirely the same.
I know I'm more forgiving and tolerant than.. well, most anyone I've run across. I'd hold no grudges over my murderer and try to offer advice to them in my last moments before death, if it came up. So, I'm not the best random sample of what people would do or say. Maybe some of it has to do with that I know everyone is capable of doing that.. I don't know. There's some small belief running around that people vary. We don't, exactly. We all hold the possibilities of a spectrum that we've barely begun to scratch the surface to, and are free to any part of it. The only thing seperating someone behind bars and.. say, a doctor in sub-Saharan Africa is choice. At least, that's what it boils down to. I can't bring myself to condemn someone who would make either of those choices, for they are a part of me, and I can't condemn myself.
Although, with a lot of the people.. that probably isn't a huge stretch. So maybe that's just one or two people, and the rest are.. yes. I've found, though, that there's an inverse relationship to how important something is and sounds, to how likely someone is to say something to it. I'm gonna pin it on fear, because, I like pinning things on fear. It seems fitting.
That being said.. your history hasn't really changed my opinion of you. At least, not how you were thinking it might. More of, how you wrote it, and what you said about it made more of an impression. It's in the past, and people change. That's a given. Having done some stupid ass thing years ago really doesn't have a lot of meaning these days, especially during teenage years with so much change. People have a funny way of being a world apart from one year to the next, even while staying entirely the same.
I know I'm more forgiving and tolerant than.. well, most anyone I've run across. I'd hold no grudges over my murderer and try to offer advice to them in my last moments before death, if it came up. So, I'm not the best random sample of what people would do or say. Maybe some of it has to do with that I know everyone is capable of doing that.. I don't know. There's some small belief running around that people vary. We don't, exactly. We all hold the possibilities of a spectrum that we've barely begun to scratch the surface to, and are free to any part of it. The only thing seperating someone behind bars and.. say, a doctor in sub-Saharan Africa is choice. At least, that's what it boils down to. I can't bring myself to condemn someone who would make either of those choices, for they are a part of me, and I can't condemn myself.
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