It's Tea Time

My previous post linked to Violent Acres, a wonderful site I recently stumbled across. One of those articles in her "Most Popular Posts" really moved me. It is an article hidden away at the bottom of the list. There is no description for it. In all honesty, I almost didn't read it. I read every single one with military thoroughness from top to bottom, but something about that one told me to leave it be. Part of me wishes I had, but part of me is glad I didn't.

It's called "I'm So Sorry Sandler" and it's a great honest look at a shameful, and despicable earlier life experience.

I felt a lot of different emotions reading through it. At points, I skipped ahead unable to handle it much more. Hind sight is 20/20 and it is obvious that now, having grown over the years, the writer is fully aware of the monstrous mistake she made. The destruction of a creature who's only fault was to be young, loving, and insecure.

I would say I recommend you read it but honestly, I don’t. It’s good for sure, but it’s dirty laundry, and it’s the kind that hurts the reader. Hurts them as if they are taking a little bit of the writer’s guilt off of their shoulders and taking it onto their own. It is, though, a very good reminder that we all have seemingly inhuman little atrocities in our past that we should try to atone for everyday will live after it. That is, after all, what makes us human again.

Another thing a tragic story like that does is remind me of the good I’ve done, and the love I get to give and receive everyday, may I never ever take it for granted for more than a fleeting moment.

And to the writer of such a sad story: I don't think Sandler would think twice about forgiving you for one second, not one.