Bad Dreams

[pyromaniacal]

When you're young, they always tell you to learn from your mistakes. But can you "learn" too much? Become scarred, haunted forever by the consequences of that split second decision that you had every reason to make differently? What if you lost your freedom, your standing in society, your spirit, and everything you worked so damn hard for up to that point? What if your downfall destroyed somebody you loved? That blamed you? Could you be forgiven? Should you be?

And even if forgiven, would you ever be whole again?