contingentmind

[contingentmind]

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

C.S. Lewis

[contingentmind]

unforgivable v. inexcusable

in the realm of actions we deem "regrettable”, the divide separating the attribute “unforgivable” and “inexcusable” is seemingly blurred. in which case, remember that for something to be inexcusable, there has to be more than an act attached to it.

humans are creatures of impulse, when impulse overrides morality, that is an unforgivable act. when morality is never a factor, that is when it is inexcusable. 

mistakes are made, yet it is when something cannot be considered a mistake that the person should be judged, and while those actions may have fundamentally hurt you, do not forget the bigger picture, or scope, of the situation entirely.

please, when you find yourself in trying situations where you have the judgement of ones actions in your mind, attempt to surpass the face-value of the action. in terms of a person’s character, intention is what truly matters.

Remember that, in your time of argument, don’t forget who your love is; what they are; who and what makes them who they are. Because they are your life, your morning dew. Embrace them and be patient.