Question №13
30 DAYS ~ 30 QUESTIONS
Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.
What did you do? Did you cheat on your partner? Hit a child in anger? Steal something? Not report a crime? Put someone’s life at risk? Go off the wagon? The list of potentially wrong human choices is long.
How have you been punishing yourself?
Year after year we unconsciously carry our past baggage into the future. Perhaps we believe there is a price, some dis-empowering form of life-long penance that we must pay. There is a tendency in all of us to hold ourselves more accountable than we do others. If someone else did the same things, you might learn to forgive them or at least let go of the hurt, anger or guilt. That’s because it’s easier to forgive others. After all, they don’t live in your head.
Yet, most of us born to this earth have not lived or died without messing up something or, in some cases, ourselves. Mistakes are natural. Learn from them and take corrective action where possible and/or do much better next time. Forgive yourself. Not because you should, but because you can.
For in the end know that
God is great; so merciful
The Universe; a pure reflection of your spirit
The question then is not if God and the Universe have forgiven you
The question is…
Have you?
Poem as appeared in Matchbox Quotes Day 20
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