Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the changing the fact that we’re all careless, as that is what victimized all of us in the first place.

A ‘victor’ is a ‘victim’ who decided to do something about the thing that victimized them other than complain about it.

I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses that I’ve had to endure. Yet, maybe the greater offense is that I’ve got that backwards.

Being the victim gives me permission to avoid the fact that people do understand, for then I no longer have any grounds to defend my position based on their ignorance.

I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.