Understanding leads to forgiveness

After one busy day in Cologne visiting its beautiful cathedral and walking around its well kept city center I sit back again on the train and open the book which has been travelling along with me these last weeks: Warten auf die Sonne, (Waiting for the Sun) by Hitonari Tsuji. The plot's quite interesting and takes place in modern Tokyo: drugs, violence, the making off of a film, the Japanese invasion in China, the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and love. Feelings and relationships that resist the pull of time and remain as a part of the characters' lives.

The most interesting thing about this book (so far) is that explains how all those feelings affect us and those surrounding us. Sometimes we can overcome hate and all those nasty feelings deriving from a failed relationship if we are capable to understand why it actually failed. Our current feelings and personality didn't come out of the blue, they're a result of past experiences, both positive and negative. Understanding how they can affect others also allows us to know the reason of their behaviour, independently of how odd it might appear to our eyes. Being conscious of that won't probably make it better, but will at least throw some light to those dark questions tormenting us. Consequently, understanding will lead to forgiveness, which is the best mood we can be in when it comes to disrupted feelings.

The sooner, the better.

[And to end up, one beautiful version of an horrible song. Well, actually it's not the song's fault... I'd rather blame the first "artist" who sung it]