One day you are going to lose everything you have. Nothing will prepare you for that day. Not faith⦠Not religion⦠Nothing. When someone you love dies, you will know emptiness⦠You will know what it is to be completely and utterly alone. You will never forget and never ever forgive⦠Think about what you have to lose.
If you are someone who has nothing to lose, then you are already hereβ¦ And your lesson is a much more difficult oneβ¦ It is an attempt to find order and justice where there is noneβ¦ For some things there is no forgivenessβ¦absolutely none. That hard fact is impossible to learn to live with. The event- the split second of time that brought you to this lonely place- cannot be forgiven, not matter how inevitable it was. It took away the future and it ended everything except for this: The emotional inertia of a relationship. That is forever and it is all that you have left. Learn to live with that.
John Bergin, 1993, Introduction for J. O'Barrβs The Crow