People who reach their seventies genuinely content usually didn’t get there by forgiving everyone; they got there by quietly releasing the need for certain people to ever understand them
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We tend to assume that the calm you see in some older people is the reward for a lifetime of forgiveness. The picture is almost cinematic: a person in their seventies who has made peace with everyone, hugged it out, and tied every loose end into a neat bow. It is a lovely story. It is also, from what I can tell, mostly wrong.
The genuinely content older people I have watched did not get there by forgiving every person who hurt or dismissed them. Some of those people never apologized and never wi
The genuinely content older people I have watched did not get there by forgiving every person who hurt or dismissed them. Some of those people never apologized and never wi
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