“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” -Alexander Pope

I am thinking about the “to err is human” part of this quote. So very true. We will mess up so many times. It’s so hard being human. Having free will, making good decisions, not hurting other people. How fragile our lives are, the effects our decisions make affect so many people. We live in the moment at times and it is messy and we mess up, then we have time to tell us of the wounds we have inflicted. Or we can over-analyze til our minds bleed this sick infectious pus of self-hatred and regret; til we’re so consumed by self-pity we’ve forgotten the true initial moment; why we made that decision in the first place and how we got there. It is so hard to be human, and so easy to err.

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