Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.