A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube interview in the series 'Books That Changed My Life' (episode featuring Kelsey Grammar). In this clip Chris Collins and Kelsey Grammar discuss forgiveness and personal agency after tragedy—Grammar emphasizes that one need not surrender to victimhood and describes living fully as an obligation after his sister Karen was killed.
Okay, here. Here's kind of. We're touching on the forgiveness a little. But you wrote sad because how we deal with events beyond our control never steals our right to deal with them as we choose to rise above them and endure in spite of them.
A lot of that section is based upon the idea that I think no matter what happens, you do not have to surrender. You do not have to surrender to thinking it's somebody else's fault or that you are a victim to the point where you can't keep going. I always saw my own life, especially since Karen was killed, as an obligation to live it fully. That I owed her that because her life was taken.
