Forgiveness is not always easy for many people, especially when the mistake is too large to just forget. When it comes to family there is always room for 2nd chances. Sometimes that is hard to remember, and it is especially hard for the Stone family. When mistake after mistake is made, who do you forgive? The Stone family must learn that those that you love must always be forgiven.
Aggression is a contagious disease that jumps from person to person like wildfire, turning us into beasts that we do not recognize. The urge to fight back is inside all of us, it’s just hidden better in some people than in others. One act of violence triggered the otherwise calm Stone family into a chain of aggression. How is it stopped? As we can see in The Tenth Circle, one must find it in ourselves to stop hating and start loving. If not, the structure of trust and happiness that is rooted underneath a family can disenegrate.
Memories can be happy, funny, and pleasing, but choosing to live off of memories is not a good idea. Living in the present is the best idea. You may find yourself turning around to your loved one and thinking, “I wish that we could be just like we used to again.” It’s better to work on making the future the best it can be, instead of crying about how your present is not as good as your past.
“It had amazed him: that utter transformation, the understanding that radical change could come in a heartbeat…" (125). Change is part of life, but change can also test the bonds that you have with your loved ones. It takes people to places that they are not used to. People must leave their comfort zone and forget about their daily routine and, most importantly, keep their family as their top priority or suffer the consequences.
Love is the ultimate goal; everybody wants it and needs it. It’s easy for us to forget that we have people that love us. It leaves us feeling alone with nowhere else to turn. What do you do when it seems like all is lost? Trixie Stone teaches us that love is all around us, we just have to open our eyes. She also teaches us that love can never be ended or forgotten, no matter how much it goes through. Love is the super-glue that holds each and every one of us together.
You are the most important part of keeping a family together. It’s so simple to look around and blame everybody else for the crumbling relationship, but it is essentially you that must change. Every relationship is mutual, so whenever one is endangered both people must step up and try to help it. Before you even do that, you must find peace in yourself. If you hate yourself and have no sense of peace, then that does nothing to help anybody around you.
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