"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am becoming that which I admire the least; the monster that I detest, that I fight. I look in the mirror and am increasingly this being. I am evermore filled with the things I find most wretched in humanity. I am not the person you see.
Please, forgive me.
Know that I am weak. That I am fallen - broken - stretched out. And that I can do nothing to remove me from the bondage of my existence.
Please, forgive me.
You are, and always will be, forgiven.
ReplyDeleteI find little that I do that needs 'forgiveness.' Perhaps I'm just arrogant, but, what the hell, life is a crap shoot anyway and who is to judge what is 'right?'
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's because I've been around for almost 7 decades; living that long creates a thick dossier of 'stuff' you've done, said, failed to say, and failed to do. Everybody has one; it's just the thickness that that varies.