Forgiveness

How often are people blinded by ideas, concepts and self deception rather than reality?

Watch an old woman's hand start to shake when her beloved son enters the house, or an old man shoved against the wall in his own home and talk about forgiveness.

Forgiveness will not change the perpetrator who goes merrily on transferring his pent up anger to first one and then another victim.  None of which are as apparent as those where he has total control, but all of which are dangerous.

There is a time and a place to walk away rather than forgive because forgiving has no meaning.  What is being forgiven?  Nothing has changed.  Innate meanness and anger are still there, perhaps lightly covered over for self serving reasons, but still there.

Knowing and doing nothing makes both parties guilty.