The person who tries and fails, and is
forgiven, and then tries again and fails, and is forgiven, is also too often the person who
wants everyone to believe
in the authenticity of all that trying.
When it’s not just naïveté, the attempt to rescue someone is often fuelled by vanity and
narcissism. Something like this is detailed in the incomparable Russian author Fyodor
Dostoevsky’s bitter classic, Notes from Underground, which begins with these famous lines:
“I am a sick man … I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is
diseased.” It is the confession of a miserable, arrogant sojourner in the underworld of
chaos and despair. He analyzes himself mercilessly, but only pays in this manner for a
hundred sins, despite committing a thousand.
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Nonetheless, people will often accept or even amplify their own suffering, as well as that
of others, if they can brandish it as evidence of the world’s injustice.