From “The Human Condition: A
User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
5 October
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 without your your
stomach already tucked in. 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 continuously 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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