We Hate the Ones We Have Wronged

It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured. ~Tacitus as children we looked past the world’s artificial trappings the ravelment of doctrines and the glaring capitalistic displays the only criteria was that we’re friends growing up the world we inhabited shrank as we embraced the rules of others to fit in adulthood meant that we overrode innate compassion for others paramount concern belonging to the right group often at the expense of many others leaving a particular religious group would lead to shunning even death lost in this Troxler effect we have ultimately lost the ability to discern human value we’re set in our ways our value compass eventually deliquesced as it decomposed like a corpse how did we become so jaundiced in our outlook it is obvious we hate the ones we have wronged forgiving ourselves is only path to redemption 14 June 2021