LESSONS IN ADULTHOOD
PHOTOGRAPH: MARK HARRISON. HAIR AND MAKE-UP: CAROLINE PIASECKI. STYLIST: KATE ANYA BARBOUR
The older I get, the more I realise that – of those big three-word phrases – ‘I forgive you’ is the most difficult to really mean. ‘I love you’; ‘I’ll stop now’; ‘I believe you’; ‘We are over’; ‘Without the chips’… all painful to say but somehow easier to do than forgiveness. (Except maybe the chips.) Recently, however, I’ve learned that if we can properly do forgiveness, wholeheartedly and without expecting anything in return, it’s the most liberating and empowering of acts.