{"id":29714,"date":"2026-05-10T18:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29714"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:18:08","slug":"how-can-we-atone-for-our-wrongdoings-if-our-decisions-are-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/05\/10\/how-can-we-atone-for-our-wrongdoings-if-our-decisions-are-permanent\/","title":{"rendered":"How can we atone for our wrongdoings if our decisions are permanent?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AW051026-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AW051026-2.jpeg\" alt=\"How can we atone for our wrongdoings if our decisions are permanent?\" class=\"wp-image-29713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AW051026-2.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AW051026-2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AW051026-2-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How can we atone for our wrongdoings if our decisions are permanent?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked one of my assistants, and they said that they try to focus on two words: \u201cbe correctable.\u201d Try to take responsibility and accountability for your choices, apologize and seek repair, and focus on how you will do things differently moving forward. We can\u2019t change what we did in the past, but we absolutely can decide to approach things differently in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked one of my assistants, and they said that they try to focus on two words: \u201cbe correctable.\u201d Try to take responsibility and accountability for your choices, apologize and seek repair, and focus on how you will do things differently moving forward. We can\u2019t change what we did in the past, but we absolutely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/05\/10\/how-can-we-atone-for-our-wrongdoings-if-our-decisions-are-permanent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How can we atone for our wrongdoings if our decisions are permanent?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29718,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions\/29718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}