How to Forgive Yourself
For Something Unforgivable
The worst of screwed up when you are young is nobody tells you the fu***ng truth—the truth of what happens next.
I am not talking about consequences. It is not a when-you-go-to-jail article. I am talking about the shame and guilt you will feel inside sooner or later on after doing some shit you did not have to.
Go back in time as if you were Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future III. Now you are in your twenties and drive a Delorean.
You have all the life to live, and cero responsibilities. You have money in your bank account — Do not ask me why, but you have it — and you are going to do bad things tonight, and you know it.
Maybe get drunk, maybe f**k with someone you will regret tomorrow morning. All those things we all did when we were young (and some people still do on Saturday night.)
Well. You know somehow you are going to do something is wrong. Then, why do you do it?
Because of hormones (obviously), you are in your Twenties. What do you want? Be a Buddhist monk? For god’s sake! You have only two certainties in your life at that age: That you will get pimples if you have a date and that sooner or later you will screw it up.
