TinyChan

right now I'm listening to this song and it's got me thinking.

If you could forgive the person who hurt you the most and saw that they not only learned the error of their ways but activiely work hard to improve and help others the same way. I wonder would a person still associate themselves in any capacity? I imagine the usual answer is somewhere along the lines of "once you crumble a paper, its not the same" etc.

but then im thinking nowdays people either hold grudges or they just remove themselves from the person altogether. lots of crumbled papers that unfortunaltey never gets straightened out just roaming around the world creating more crumbled papers that in turn leave everyone bitter.

Idk maybe humans are too burnt out to care anymore. to tired to fix and learn one's error. to burnt to reach out and extend or accept the olive branch.

I guess something to think about would be if hilter or someone like him was roaming the earth today and decided one day he or she felt remorse and terrible for what they've done and vowed to spend their life making up for their transgressions. could society forgive him? would he be redeemable. what would that even look like.

religion seems teaches both punishment and forgiveness and yet we're pretty quick to punish but to slow to offer the amnesty especially if they're remorseful. maybe thats why some people stay as repeat offenders. maybe they see that once you commit an error theres no undoing and the punishment continues to aggregate therefore whats the point.

I mean ultimately it always ends up as "it depends on xyz"

anyway I like the song.