Confessions

by Kanae Minato

The people who are hurt most should have the right to judge the ones who hurt them,

It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.

I think we regular people may have forgotten a basic truth—we don’t really have the right to judge anyone else.

Weak people find even weaker people to be their victims. And the victimized often feel that they have only two choices: put up with the pain or end their suffering in death. But they’re wrong. The world you live in is much bigger than that. If the place in which you find yourself is too painful, I say you should be free to seek another, less painful place of refuge. There is no shame in seeking a safe place. I want you to believe that somewhere in this wide world there is a place for you, a safe haven.

Our values are determined by the environment we grow up in; and we learn to judge other people based on a standard that’s set for us by the first person we come in contact with—which in most cases is our mother.

It was too painful to realize that the one person in the world I loved was suffering by the very fact of my existence.

Human beings have a fundamental need for physical and emotional space, and the desire to extinguish another life can arise when the boundaries of that space are violated.