I'm Trying

I've been taught my entire life that no matter what someone does, it is expected that if they apologize we accept their apologies with grace. Compassion is a strange word. At the heart of it is passion... any deep feeling or emotion. right? Compassion is supposed to be a deep rooted understanding and sympathy for another's person's suffering. How is it that compassion can not be an understanding of another person's elation? Why must it always be commiseration? So I ask you to briefly commiserate with me and understand that someone I know and love (whether I like her or not) has extended her electronic apologies and love to me. Granted, both may not be sincere through the cloud of drug haze she lives in, but the effort was made. For the life of me, I don't know what to write back. I can't be mean... part of me fears she will not be with me for much longer and I would hate to "wash my hands of her" and never speak to her again. I can't tell her all is forgiven... it isn't. I so desperately wish that someone would just tell me what to do.