Forgiveness

I’ve recently been musing on the nature of forgiveness since I ran into an old university friend of mine not too long ago. Old friend being the appropriate word - I got along with him passably but we had a bust up after several incidents of him basically plagiarising large chunks of my work for an extremely large chunky essay, the end result of which was both of us wound up starting our essays from scratch and on different topics.

I didn’t go for his eyes or anything but was generally adverse to trusting him too far even though we were supposed to be consulting on a minor collaborative effort - I explained why to a colleague who looked a little surprised and asked “haven’t you forgiven him yet?”

Well, no. Not really. I’m not a forgiving person. Not even remotely. I rarely forgive, I never forget. And this is a problem?

Long ramble about forgiveness follows.
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