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Was Kweku simply "too exhausted to explain it, too exhausted to think: of other hospitals, of starting over,... of being reasonable, of being responsible, of being a father, of being forgiven?" Here one wishes the author would slow down and explore this chain of psychological events, rather than simply gesturing toward it with an alliterative list.
This family member is depressed, unhealthy, compassionate, lonely, defeatist and dreams of being forgiven.
Call it empathy, perspective-taking, or any other name, what is important is that you appreciate why another person is worthy of being forgiven.
Elements three through five are of equal weight, and element six is the one you can leave out and still achieve the desired effect of being forgiven.
This way you'll spare your brain cells a lot of useless agitation; this way, perhaps, you may even save those pigheads from themselves, since the prospect of being forgotten is shorter than that of being forgiven.
In Rick Hampson's USA Today feature analyzing Armstrong's chances of being forgiven by the American public, he notes that Armstrong might be cut a break because "he didn't hurt anyone, unlike singer Chris Brown, who hit his girlfriend, Rihanna, or Bernard Madoff, who ruined many of his clients".
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"By becoming a better person, I put myself in the position of someday being forgiven".
Following the war, Germany accepted the olive branch and understood that reconciliation implied responsibility: An everlasting responsibility that grew out of culpability being forgiven.
They treat their errors as jokes and forgive themselves instantly, instead of waiting to be forgiven by their teammates.
He also received mortgages of roughly $1.5 million through the school as a perquisite — $440,000 of which was forgiven by the university over time.
They could, of course, be forgiven for tempering their expectations.
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