April 16, 2007

• To Err Is Human...
  ... to forgive, divine.

  A part of being human means making mistakes, so it's inevitable that unless you want to wind up completely alone, you're going to reach a point in your life where you'll have to forgive someone for some mistake they've made. The problem, though, is when the issues becomes complicated and tangled with other factors, like trust. Trust is a very fragile thing and once broken, it is often difficult to repair. While it's easy for me to forgive someone in the aftermath of their human errors if they're willing to apologize sincerely, the problem lies in fixing the other things which were broken.

  Trust is like a glass figurine. It's beautiful to behold, fragile, delicate, and you can see right through it. You have to handle it carefully, though, because once you shatter it, it's extremely difficult to fix. (Some would say impossible, but I don't believe in impossible.) In this case, forgiveness is simply not enough, because the figurine is still shattered no matter which way you look at it. You could crazy-glue it back together, but it simply won't ever look the same again. Perhaps an expert craftsman could repair it, but then you're talking lots of money and time. (Neither of which you have in great abundance.) Perhaps there's an answer you're overlooking? Maybe. But you're too busy right now to consider unorthodox possibilities. So the pieces are brushed up, placed into a box for safekeeping, and left there for the day when perhaps an answer can be found. Until then, it will wait patiently in its box for a solution, because its owner is a packrat that keeps and hordes everything he's ever owned in boxes that are spread across every available storage space in the whole house.

  "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
  ~William Shakespeare

  "I trust everyone.  I just don't trust the devil inside them."
  ~Troy Kennedy (Martin), The Italian Job
  

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