"My working definition, basically, for forgiveness is that it no longer wishes ill or seeks revenges on the person who hurt us, and that it basically untethers us from them and enables us to have a different future from the past."got me thinking about Heidegger and his idea that some lives are saturated with history. As I read this again, it isn't just the (possible new) future that becomes an option with forgiveness, the past, you know that thing they (das man) love to say can't be changed, CAN be changed...
with perspective. Perspective is nothing but a different way of looking, hearing, feeling, tasting, touching the world and her willingness to remain open to a different perspective opened the future door of forgiveness and closure and in one fell swoop she changed, it is possible, the past and the future.
Perspective requires bravery and openness; there is risk involved.
As much risk as being closed to it.
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