"The Human Condition: a User's Manual," by Arnold Kunst
17 December
Love begins with forgiveness.
Everything up to the time forgiveness is required is just
manners. It’s putting your best foot forward. It’s saying, “Please” when you
want the salt. It’s not letting him see you without your face already on. It’s
not letting her see you until you’ve tucked in your stomach. But sooner or
later one of you is going to screw up, and we’re not talking Emily Post here.
It’s one of the reasons you absolutely must devote lots and lots of
time to courting this particular person. Somewhere along the line you must
forgive/you must seek forgiveness. Forgiveness is nature’s way of taking out
the emotional garbage in the very same way that rain is nature’s way of
cleansing/irrigating.
Forgiveness is far more important than most of us realize
because if the forgiveness thing is not a blip on our emotional radar, the
emotional garbage accumulates – and never leaves. She needs to know your love
for her is as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. You need to know her love for you
is more powerful than this or that fault.
All that is really, really important. And it centers around
this irreducible point:
Love begins with forgiveness.
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