Broken glass

A glass bottle falls on the cement ground and broke. It broke into pieces and was unable to be fixed with glue. The only thing that can be done is to recycle it. Then it becomes a part of a hundred more bottles in the future.

Is it still the same bottle?

Physically it is not but the components of the materials it is made of stayed the same. I think the same goes for a person that undergoes therapy after trauma. They might look alright from the outside but only they know the suffering they buried inside. Things that can be triggered by a certain action. As the new glass bottle falls on the same ground, it gets broken the same way. The first broken glass was sent for recycling but this second broken glass just might be thrown away as garbage.

Certain things will not be the same every time. If we hurt someone's feelings and were forgiven but then repeated the same mistake a few times more, we might still be forgiven. It's good to be forgiven all the time but then we should realize that we lost the trust given to us.