Separating The Disease Out

Today I am able to separate the disease from the person. People change – I have changed. The same person who was a terror to me in childhood could possibly be a friend today. We were all sick, no one really escaped our family disease. The disease that kept us from one another in childhood need not keep me from having what I can have today, both with myself and others. I can see who I was as a person with a disease, and I can see who I am as a person without one. If I am going to have some of the people in my life today who have hurt me in the past and who I have hurt, I need to forgive each of us for not knowing better, for being sick.

I can separate the disease from the person.

Wait, says an Arab proverb, “and stay at your window; you will see your enemy’s corpse pass by