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[grandpaladin]

Tell me friends.

Are there those of you who find it difficult to forgive another?

I am curious. For personal reasons -- there is no judgment here.

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[warandpeace]

I absolutely think it's difficult. It depends on the threshold of what I can tolerate. [His threshold is very low nowadays. Unless the whole world depends on his forgiveness and that apparently makes him reconsider, as he's discovered here.]

If they're not sorry they can go to hell.

[grandpaladin]

They are, of that, I am sure.

Does it make much difference to you?

[warandpeace]

If they care that I'm hurt? Especially by them?

[Even if it's just pride, and not worse.]

I guess if it's just me involved, no lost lives or lives destroyed, then I can accept an apology. Then I'll forgive.

Depending on the person I might want to punch them in the face [or hit them with his crutch if there aren't the spare limbs there] to punctuate that forgiveness.

[grandpaladin]

Eh
Punching

That is not in the cards this time.

I don't know if they care. I think so. I want to think so. But I am a sentimental old man.

[warandpeace]

I think someone cares if they express the idea that their life would be less without you in it, and not in a way that is less convenient for them. Simply less.

But I'm sentimental, too.

[Even if he would send some people right to the pit to burn.]

Some aren't very good with words. They have to do it in how they act. I'm not the best at reading that. I prefer to be told.

[grandpaladin]

Hah. So am I, my friend. So am I.

Sometimes, I would think I was good at reading people. Maybe not so much with age.

[warandpeace]

Are you reading them incorrectly or mostly reading the best in them?

[grandpaladin]

Ah, knowing myself. It is perhaps the latter.

[warandpeace]

Most of the time I can only see the worst.

[And sometimes he preemptively imagines people to be worse than they are. But it's a testament to someone's character that they would assume well of someone.]