Forgiveness, Repentance, and Human Condition, by Thomas Collins Jr.

Forgiveness, the ability to relinquish negative feelings from experiences or perceptions, acute or peripheral, real, perceived, or imagined from violations or infractions be it first or a serial occurrence. The mechanism through which one or another obtains freedom if not from another from oneself.  

Interactions in the cosmos and our multifaceted spheres of influence have experiences real, perceived, imagined, inspired, acute, peripheral, situational, and circumstantial. These encounters intentional, random, and spontaneous allow for many diversified causes, effects, and rationales. The mechanism used for adjustment or change in vector of azimuth is as diverse as is an experience, or group of recollections and encounters. The options for engagement, neutralization, or escalation are as multifaceted and complex as is anything among the celestial. 

Opportunities and the journey of life offer and bring many occasions by which one person or many people may violate, or upend, the statusquo or the realm of the acceptable norm. Upon reflection, how does one or another obtain forgiveness? Is there anything such as true forgiveness? True forgiveness? Is it is easy to forgive and forget or just let go? What are social realistic expectations of forgiveness and the unforgivable? Relativity in relation to rationale and circumstance in terms of understanding the unforgivable, or the perceived unconscionable, is it a new sanity? Can a never ending hurt repeatedly encountered through trauma ever be seen as forgiven?  

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