Chuck Bryant

But that's not to say that we're not moved by it.

Because I think if you hear, whenever you hear real life stories of forgiveness...

they just bowl you over.

Oh, yeah.

Even when you step back and think about like what the person's actually doing, you're like, yes, legitimately anybody could do what they just did.

It's akin to hearing somebody solo climbing Mount Everest or something like that.

It makes the news, literally, when somebody forgives in like a really deep way that the average person might not.

Yeah, like a big-time transgression.

A lot of times you'll hear of a courtroom scene where someone has forgiven the person who, like, murdered their relative or loved one or something.

Yeah.

And that – man, that stuff is powerful.

You're right.

Every time you see these stories, you dug up this one story from –

berkeley the greater good magazine uh science-based insights for a meaningful life right of uc berkeley of this woman who was a nurse's aide who hit a guy she had been drinking hit a guy in her car he went through the windshield uh and was stuck there and she was so impaired she didn't realize it for a while uh

And eventually realized it, got out of the car, could not get the guy out who was still alive, mind you.

And so drove home and parked her car in the garage to let this guy slowly die in her garage.

over the course of a couple of days.

And she sobered up, would go out and check on him once in a while, but refused to call for help because she was too concerned about getting in trouble.

So instead, she let him die, had a couple friends come help her hide the body, move the body, and then actually got found out later on because four months later, she was at a party, and she joked about it to an acquaintance who went and told the cops.

And this woman ended up getting 50 years in prison.