Between the Bars: Comments on 'Untitled'https://betweenthebars.org/posts/commentfeed/127042013-07-12T14:15:34ZComment2013-07-12T14:15:34ZJT/people/show/7238tag:betweenthebars.org,2013-07-12:/posts/12704//comments
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<span class='comment-date'>Posted 10 years, 8 months ago.</span>
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Do you write to them?<br /><br />I have read through your posts several times and I wanted to write how impressed I am by the hard work that you are doing.<br /><br />You face your past with real bravery. Most people are unable to do this. You take responsibility not just for what happened, but for all of the consequences (both seen and unseen).<br /><br />I very much hope that you bring as much compassion to yourself (to your own story, and to your own mistakes) and you would now (I think) bring to someone else who has walked a similar path. <br /><br />We all deserve forgiveness. <br /><br />The road that you have traveled is in many ways more dangerous, more fraught with sadness, and more lonely than my own. <br /><br />But we all live with regret and pain. The thing we both share is a desire to find a way to live with our sorrows and triumphs. To bear the guilt with grace, face it, and then put it (gently) to the side.<br /><br />The sum of our lives is who we become, I believe, not who we were in our worst moment.<br /><br />Take every care,<br /><br />jan
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