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OK, it’s been quite some time since I last updated my blog. Lately I’ve been thinking of some other things, but I still remember her. It’s just that now I’m thinking of something I’ve actually learned two months ago.

Well, what I learned is, we should never close the door too tightly. When someone has done something wrong to us, we could make them pay for it. We could make them regret it, and we could punish him/her, but we must never kill that person. He/she has to be given a chance to repent, to start over.

After all, we’re all humans. And we do make mistakes, even repeated ones. I know, I’m also very emotional myself, and I don’t usually tolerate other people’s mistakes. Sometimes I think that my conscience is just a burden to me, and I’ve always tried to shake it off.

But I realized that as humans, we have compassion. We don’t just go around and kill everyone who’s done something wrong to us. We get hurt, we forgive, and then we forget, because we know, that when we hurt someone later on, we also want to be forgiven.

Seems like I’m against the death penalty now. Before, I used to think that if a person’s crimes are too serious (for example, murder), he should get a death penalty. Maybe in the gas chamber, so it would be painful. But now I think of how I would feel if I were him/her. I would be very sad, and I would long for another chance. Just another chance to get in the society, to make up for my past mistakes, or just to live another day. And it’s now educative, you’re just killing another person. I think the best way is through probation, and of course imprisonment, because it would actually be educative. While in prison, that person might open his/her eyes and repent.

Actually it would also be bad for the executor. And the jury. I know, because I’ve experienced it. They say that regret always comes late, but now I say that it’s not called regret if it’s not late. Sometimes we take turns, and we have to forgive the executor.

When you leave, don’t slam it too hard. Who knows you might want to come back. Sometimes the door is shut so tightly that the owner won’t be able to open it for you anymore. When that happens, well, I don’t know what to do, maybe there’s a lesson for you to learn, there.

Looks like my storm hasn’t ended yet, and I really don’t know when or if it will. I hope it will stop soon, but I’m not sure of when. And now I began to realize that, it’s very easy to say something, but sometimes it’s very difficult to carry it out. And you have to put yourself in another person’s shoes, think about what and how he/she would feel if you did that. I’m not very good at doing this, so I learn these things by experience. And let me tell you, it’s not fun at all. In fact, it’s painful. I just hope I can share this so that other people don’t have to go through the same painful things I did.