"Images of the coast at sunset on February 1, 2024."
The nature offers us different tones and colors in the same place within a brief period of time.
Similarly, there are different shades of truth and lies.
There are compassionate lies and cruel lies, uncomfortable truths and kind truths.
At some point in our lives, we all experience these different shades of truth and lies. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
In the end, it is up to each individual to decide what level of truth we can accept and what level of lie we can forgive.
Personally, I believe that if someone makes a mistake, you forgive them, and if you choose to continue trusting that person, you cannot use their mistake to impose your supposed moral superiority in every discussion you have with them.
I think it's understandable and acceptable not to forget the mistakes others may make, but I believe they should stay in the past, as using them as a weapon only demonstrates resentment and a lack of forgiveness.
At this point, the person who once made a mistake has two options: either resign themselves to the fact that every time they argue, their past mistakes will be thrown back at them, or distance themselves because they believe they can never have a clean and equal relationship with the person who claims to have forgiven them.
This is the essence of the phrase that begins this blog entry: accept, forgive, and coexist. It's a complicated but necessary balance because telling a big lie in a given moment and context doesn't make you a liar, just as telling an inconvenient or uncomfortable truth doesn't make you the best or worst of human beings.
I humbly believe that people should be judged over time, based on all their actions and omissions, and by the intention they have toward others every time they may be right or wrong. That better defines the person in front of us.
Thoughts from a corner of a beautiful and increasingly tumultuous Kingdom.
