To err is human, to forgive divine


They said ‘love is blind’, they said ‘to err is human, to forgive divine’, but then how and why the elders kept saying these things baffled him. All he had done was one small mistake, one small error, and she was unwilling to either forgive him for it, or even better overlook it. It was easy for these elders to make all these wonderful feel-good statements about love being blind and extolling the virtues of forgiveness, but then he still had to see even anything remotely close to being loved or forgiven.

What could he do? Who could he blame? Was it right of the municipal authorities to allow such reasonably large sized potholes on a busy junction, was it right of the Water Supply and Sewerage Board to dig up arterial roads on weekdays to lay new sewage pipes, was it right of the contractors to allow sewage to drain out on the main road, was it right of the Road Transport bus driver to drive by so fast that all of the sewage splashed upon him and her when they were on their bikes? None of this seemed right.

She would never forgive him for what happened, nor would he ever forgive the rest of the universe for conspiring to allow this to happen to him.

4 thoughts on “To err is human, to forgive divine

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