It is late. And I remember. And I am sad..
Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be miserly
with forgiveness. By forgiving too readily, we can be badly hurt.
But if we've learned from a mistake and become better for it,
shouldn't we be rewarded for the learning, rather than punished for
the mistake?
What if our world worked differently? Suppose we could tell her: "I
didn't mean what I just said," and she would say: "It's okay, I
understand," and she would not turn away, and life would really
proceed as though we had ever said that thing? We could remove the
damage but still be wiser for the experience.
with forgiveness. By forgiving too readily, we can be badly hurt.
But if we've learned from a mistake and become better for it,
shouldn't we be rewarded for the learning, rather than punished for
the mistake?
What if our world worked differently? Suppose we could tell her: "I
didn't mean what I just said," and she would say: "It's okay, I
understand," and she would not turn away, and life would really
proceed as though we had ever said that thing? We could remove the
damage but still be wiser for the experience.