Plates

I heard this short story in the form of a dialogue recently:

Grab a plate and throw it on the ground.

-Okay.

Did it break?

-Yes.

Now say sorry to it.

-Okay.

Did it go back to the way it was before?

-No.

Do you understand now?

(See it as an image here)

There are at least three lessons in the story:

1. If someone has hurt you, it doesn’t have to be magically okay. It will probably continue to hurt for a while.

2. If you’ve hurt someone else, you should do everything you can to make it right—but you als...