The day the child realizes all adult are imperfect, they become an adolescent; the day they forgive them, they become an adult.. True or False?
I believe that the full quote is: ‘The day the child realizes all adults are imperfect, they become an adolescent; the day they forgive them, they become an adult. The day they forgive themselves, they become wise.’ And yes, I concur with this statement. When a child realizes that nothing (in this case, adults) is perfect and nothing lasts forever &etc. then they are starting to grow up. For the second part of the statement, however, he (Aldan Nowlan) talks about forgiveness of others. I believe that he means forgive your friends/relatives (that you would consider as adults) for anything they may have done, and being imperfect in that they did this or that (or in some cases didn’t do this or that.) And I also concur here – if you are ignorant of forgiveness of others then you are still a child. And the third part of the statement I think is meant more literally – the day they forgive themselves for all their errors and flaws in themselves, they learn from them, they become wise from th
