share my outrage.
She had known exactly how upset we were.
She had watched us clean the door.
And then she had come back and done it again.
I learned something from that, although it wasn’t the lesson I would have chosen.
Kindness doesn’t require us to ignore evidence. Being a good neighbor doesn’t mean surrendering our boundaries. And giving someone the benefit of the doubt shouldn’t mean refusing to protect ourselves when something is clearly wrong.
Most importantly, we don’t have to understand another person’s motives before we’re allowed
