Atonement

You can never outrun mistakes of the past, no matter how hard you try and how much distance you manage to traverse and how mightily you struggle to rationalize those stubborn knaves; they become a permanent part of you, no different than your physical features and your God-given personality.  You must thus somehow come to terms with your mistakes in a manner that allows you to proceed forward with a clear conscience and an unburdened mind. Mistakes will affect and bedevil EVERYONE throughout the course of their lifetimes; that much is a given and as etched in stone as Moses’ apocryphal Ten Commandments.  Yet this fact we know for sure as well: How we react to mistakes that occur spontaneously and in no logical order is the true test of one’s character and the only meaningful variable secondary to that larger-than-life equation which governs our day-to-day existences.