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Write about feeling sorry for something you have done or something you have not done. Remember that you can always use your character!
Maybe there is something. Back then, I felt hurt that my understanding of love did not meet with his. I felt hurt, I felt devastated. I thought it was all his fault. But it was not his fault that our understanding did not match. He did not know back then. And I also did not know. Nobody's fault. And I am sorry. I only hope that he will find someone whose understanding of love will match his, so they can live and love one another happily ever after.
And maybe there is something else. Back then, I felt hurt that my understanding of friendship did not meet with hers. I felt hurt, I felt devastated. I thought it was all her fault. But it was not her fault that our understanding did not match. She did not know back then. And I also did not know. Nobody's fault. And I am sorry. I only hope that she will find someone whose understanding of friendship will match hers, so they can live and be friends with one another happily ever after.
Rise and Write 50-56. Week 8
This piece, for me, captures the essence of true forgiveness. I think it's a silly myth that we would ever forget the most painful times in our lives ... but what you say here captures the heart of what it is to forgive ... ourselves and the other, for it always takes two in such situations. As you say, when two don't match, why blame anyone? Yet so often we do. This seems much, much better to me.
ReplyDeleteI think true forgiveness is one of the hardest things to do... Thank you, Justin!
Deleteso true...some people just have a different understand of love and friendship than we do and it doesn't mean their understand is wrong, it may just be different.
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