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vendetta
Categories: ouch
Tags: Accident, Cycling, God, Insurance
Date: 17 February 2012 02:12:21
Vendetta
Diary of an accident victim
Part 21
3 September 2006
I feel like he got away with it. The courts are too lenient to motorists.. £100 plus £40 costs is all he has lost for putting me in hospital for a week and out of work for 14 weeks. I am, of course, talking about the guy who was driving the car which collided with me nearly six months ago.
Why am I whining? I stand to get more, much more, than that, but that is from the insurance company. The cost to the driver, £140.
A lot of drivers have insurance policies which protect their no claims bonus, even if he didn't, he damaged his car and would have claimed anyway. So the cost to the driver other than his own damages is less than half a week's wages. Peanuts.
But why am I upset by this? My feelings have taken me by surprise - I thought I had forgiven him. I've certainly prayed for God to forgive him, but now it seems that he isn't forgiven after all, the hurt and resentment are still there . I really want to forgive, but deep down a little voice is saying, "If he isn't hurt in the same way he hurt you then justice has not been done.
I need to let go of the resentment. If we all followed an eye for an eye as our philosophy of life all we would achieve is blinding the world. As long as I think of myself as a victim (see title of blog) there will always be the voice of vendetta whispering from inside.
Why can't I pass on the same level of forgiveness as Christ has shown to me?
...to be continued.
This was first posted on St Pixels blog on 3 September 06
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