Thursday, February 16
hurt
"Your 'pleasures' (i.e. social engagements) seem to be almost as much of an affliction as anything else! -but I can understand that.... I think what one has to remember when people 'hurt' one is that in 99 cases out of 100 they intended to hurt very much less, or not at all, and are often quite unconscious of the whole thing. I've learned this from the cases in which I was the 'hurter'. When I have been really wicked and angry and meant to be nasty the other party never cared or even didn't notice. On the other hand, when I have found out afterwards that I had deeply hurt someone, it had nearly always been quite unconscious on my part. (I loathe 'sensitive' people who are 'easily hurt' by the way, don't you? They are a social pest. Vanity is usually the real trouble)." -C.S. Lewis
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"(I loathe 'sensitive' people who are 'easily hurt' by the way, don't you? They are a social pest. Vanity is usually the real trouble)."
ReplyDeleteHe is being serious here, right? I hope so, b/c I totally agree with him.
wait...is the parenthesis your words, or still his?
ReplyDeletenevermind, nevermind. I read your response on Jen's blog.
ReplyDelete'Letters to An American Lady'...that quote makes sense in the context of that book. He's being completely 'real' and 'unedited' in his writing.