The Receipt the World Refuses to Throw Away

I know a family friend that we grew up together back then. He once said something during one of these family holidays together that made everyone look at him in a very terrible way. Some didn't talk with him throughout the holiday, but I did anyway. He was a bit older than I am, and he was also this loud guy and wrong about almost everything he believed in then. I have never seen someone as bold as he was back then because he said everything with a full chest and probably no awareness because some of his words were so heavy with weight. Today, he is now a man and married, and it looks like a brand new person because he's now the most careful person I have seen, so quiet. I didn't ask him, though, but I believed that he had seen a lot of things about life and something in him had shifted. But assuming someone was able to record what he did back then and that person posted it on the internet, I believe many people won't really care about who he is now but rather what he said back then.

And that is one of the problems we now have today because hardly will you see anyone that truly wants to sit with honesty. We as individuals now live in a time when growth is talked about in motivational talks, preched to us on Sundays. But at that very moment someone changes his pattern by growing and moving away from that which they once believed in, people will go as far back to find any little faults or mistakes from their past. They will demand a full payment by bringing out different receipts. And to me, this is a very deep contradiction that barely makes any sense until you get to know that accountability has quietly become a show of performance. And this performance definitely is in need of a villain so it can play out well.

The brutal truth is that if we take a deep dive into the lives of some of these people that said some bad and terrible things way back, it is a reflection of where they grew up, what they saw, and what they were taught, which was normalized. But this is not an excuse anyway. I was just explaining it. And I must say, we have a very big difference between giving an excuse for an action and explaining what someone deliberately does. Some of these very harmful beliefs I grew up hearing from friends in school, neighbors, schoolteachers, and family members. I wanted to believe that those things were the right thing back then. But thank God for good parenting and some real-life experience that corrected my mind slowly.

I have seen some old tweets of celebrities that came up trending, and what I will always keep asking myself is this, what are we actually doing if we continue to cancel everyone who once held a wrong belief? Will people stop if the punishment from what they once believed is severe? Will there still be honesty? And is this truly fair or growth? And rather than adjusting, people will just continue to conceal what they really believe in just to avoid the aftermath and it will continue to keep bad beliefs, problems, hypocrisy from plain sight instead of being fixed.

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