June 1, 2009 at 6:30 pm (Uncategorized)

The price of freedom is forgiveness.

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  1. hjartas said,

    June 2, 2009 at 3:18 am

    wow. i’ve never thought about those things with respect to each other.

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  2. d said,

    June 4, 2009 at 2:59 am

    True. I think I need to let that settle in. Hard, though.

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    • anatomyofadress said,

      June 5, 2009 at 7:13 pm

      Well, and also refers back to my original ponderance: is forgiveness anything more than giving up and walking away? I don’t know, still.

      You know how the human body responds to stress by releasing massive volumes of cortisol and adrenaline? And how, over prolonged periods, vessels that were temporarily constricted become permanently so, the muscles shred, the heart shrinks?

      You mustn’t dwell. The body, abandoned to trauma, will destroy itself.

      I think there is an element of softening, of compassion. But not for the purposes of the wrongdoer. The softening toward the injury is a necessity of moving on, the price of freedom. You let yourself drift away from the trauma because you don’t deserve to hurt anymore–because there are multitudes of sensations and experiences that aren’t the trauma in question.

      You do it because you have to, you do it because you let yourself.

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