re: How do you handle a mentor/hero letting you down?

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9/10 responses here will be vitriolic spew from folks who have built up defenses by neglecting anything which contains emotional depth.

That being said, it's tough. I had a mentor, they were actually family, who made a decision that really destroyed a family. It hurt me to the core, and I have just now started to heal from it.

I suppose for me it allowed me to see that if this person could fall so mightily, so could I. It has forced me to realize that my flesh (Christian term for the Id) can control me if I let it, and it will take me to bad places. I must combat it with good and with what I believe to be the Holy Spirit (the subconscious which little kids basically live in).

In the end Grace is needed for all of us, Grace with one another, Grace from God, Grace covers a multitude of sins. Forgive them as quickly as you can, as they are just a human being like you and I.

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