a story on the axe forgets but the tree does not 300words
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The axe forgets what the tree remembers. In another turn of the phrase, bullies forget what the victim remembers. An axe is what it is. So is a bully.
Anyone distant from an event has the idea that the past is the past. It should be forgotten and move on. Victims understand that far better than aggressors.
I remember living here. I remember having doors slammed in my face, people threatening me with violence if I did not shut up. I remember thugs making life incredibly unpleasant here. Cowards who still threaten, still destroy. The lack of cooperation that was, is, a constant of living here. I remember being physcially attacked when trying to work in the garden. I remember being chased across a lawn with a resident shoving his face into mine, screaming, “Hit me. Hit me. You know you want to. Hit me”. Or presenting garden plans to the house, open to cooperation, only to see the plans plagiarized and passed off by neighbors, the house determined to exclude people who are not their kind. And I remember sitting in front of my home, minding my own business, only to have a resident scream abuse at me, step close to me taking photos only to distribute them to the house with a stream of lies attached. I remember having my private property vandalised and stolen. The loss of year after year of garden development to a thug, a bully, a coward. And I remember a house that turned their backs on the violence, the abuse, and did everything they could to protect the person who has been the most aggressive and uncooperative.
The tree remembers what the axe forgets because the axe does the damage. The tree is the injured party, the victim. And it always amazes me how bullies, thugs and cowards think they only have to say “sorry” for them to be forgiven. There is rarely, rarely, rarely any real recognition of what they have done. They say “sorry’ as a quick-fix, cure-all. Something they mumble – expecting that they can go on from this point on, with no real awareness of, nor apology for, what they are, how they have behaved. They remain bullies. They remain the same person they were before. Vulgar, aggressive and cowardly.