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.... I Grew Up? DID I?

I grew up learning that " To Err is human but to Forgive is Divine ". And now I prefer being human committing errors now and then just to prove that I am human, arguing on my point being right even if it weren't and I knew it from the word Go, trying to convince myself that its alright to be human and err rather than asking for forgiveness and make them feel Divine. And now I realise that it's harder to be human than to be divine. Why then would we Indians not forgive the Pakistanis for what a few grown ups had to do to us. While I was a kid and had to attend school which I hated then, I always felt one would never get to nowhere by going to school. But 16 years after I was done with my schooling and after the Supreme court ruled that elementary education should be made a fundamental right, the Rajya Sabha passed a legislation to provide free and compulsory education to every child in the age group of 6-14 years and from class I to VIII. All these years I grew up