as ceaser goodell’s response to mike vick’s situation reminds us, our personal definitions of redemption, remorse, forgiveness, and penance are almost completely arbitrary, subject to morph, modify, and mutate at our individual whims.

this line of thinking is particularly relevant in regards to romantic relationships, where invested feelings, well-timed great gotdamn, and magnificent medulla oblongata can make a blatantly indefensible act forgotten quicker than coke zero and shine’s career

despite this reality, everybody has a romantic boiling point, an act they’ve deemed unpardonable regardless of the situation and circumstance. Continue reading →