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Amends: A Way to Better Yourself, or Simply a Buffy Episode?
If Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, and in a way is about making amends, perhaps the most important person to make amends with this year, is myself. I remember reading the article Someone reported worker to HR for being mean to herself, and while the woman was awful to herself, it didn’t even hold a candle to the things I’ve said to my own face. What started as self-deprecation quickly lost its humor and simply became scorn. The things I had once said in jest became things I actually believed to be truth. And I’m not the only person I need to make amends to. None of us are…