Question:“On being wronged”
On being wronged
The feeling of being wronged is the body knowing, before anyone else, that the scale is off. The feeling is right. But what fixes a scale is not feeling. It is a record.
Write down what happened, with the date. Say it once, not to whoever will listen but to whoever can decide. Said twice, it becomes a complaint. Said once, it is testimony.
Philoctetes was left on Lemnos because of the smell of his wound. Ten years later they learned that Troy would not fall without his bow, and came back for him.