“The best revenge is to have enough self-worth not to seek it.” – Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

1 August

Forgiving is. I think, more important than you and I imagine. Admittedly, I haven't much experience at up-close-and-personal forgiving, but hopefully I'll work myself to expert status before I’m finished because, like, I don’t think there’s any alternative. After all, if the Lord’s Prayer is anything to go by, God’s forgiving me is directly proportionbal to my forgiving others, and if that’s true then learning how to forgive is about as crucial a task as tasks get. It requires a laser-beam focus on what gives Life and a commensurate letting go of things that don't. I think I’m supposed to let them fall away, as though of their own weight; just stop clinging to them any more because they represent death and decay. Maybe it's like letting go of the control-freak thing at night and falling asleep. I think the sign I'm getting it down is the realization that I'm traveling far lighter - it means I am, as best I can, leaving the dead to bury the dead while I turn my face toward whatever gives life. And heaven is LIFE on steroids, right?