Let's Forgive

 

Forgiveness has to be done from deep within, with heavy feelings of regret and remorse.  It is not an act to get away or to sweep things under the carpet.  It is always easy to say ‘I am sorry and please forgive me’.  However, these words mean nothing when they are not sincerely meant.

We have to be mindful on why we need to forgive.  Importantly, why is there a need to do it?  What is the purposeful purpose?  Can forgiveness erase the past, all the wrong deeds?  With forgiveness, will it make us a better person moving forward?

Let us forgive ourselves every day.  Let us forgive others every day.  Let forgiveness be a norm every day.  Let us forgive to become a better human.

Whether we are to forgive ourselves (and/or others), the mind needs to concede to the resolution.  The alignment is crucial to make things right.  The heart needs to internalize.  It must not be for the mind to take a stand to brush away on what was wrongfully schemed.  There should be repentance.

When we cannot forgive, we are literally living our lives with no vested interest in peace.  When there is hatred within us, we become our own prisoners.  When there is hatred for a group of people (whatever is the reason), it is as good that we hate humanity.

When we are to insult someone, it is as good that we are insulting his Creator.  When we call someone an idiot (as an example), are we calling his Creator an idiot too?  All of us come from a Source and to make bad judgement and reference, are we equating the source too?

Be kind to ourselves so we can be happy enough to be kind to the world.  Though people come and people go, we should live a life only to be filled with kindness and to cherish only the good memories.  These are simple tasks where we should, and must, do for our well being.

Failing them will affect our general health.  Dis-ease of any kinds will manifest with time.  There is always a consequence, a subtle effect, on all our actions to the well being of our body – emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically.  They are related, whether we like it or not and whether we know it or not.

With forgiveness, there will be paradigm shift.  Love, the verb, becomes active and alive.  There will be subtle outburst of unspoken freedom.  There will be a sense of being new, a feeling of an improved person, we shall be. 

With forgiveness, we get closer to completeness in life.  It is a virtue where we get to achieve deep satisfaction and get to be kind, in return, as a human.  When there is forgiveness, we put peace out in the world.  And, when we do that, we get peace back.

Forgiveness allows us to be more accepting.  It heals all wounds and amends all wrong doings.  It opens the doors to make things right.  Forgiveness has the ability to soften a person to become less reactive to situations.  It will turn the person to be more accepting on the shortcomings of others.

PS, do we ever get to know a human who is perfectly perfect?  We should not judge a person by his one flaw/fault.  It is good that we are to see a human in his/her totality.

Forgiveness is about renewal.  There is a deep spirituality element.  The brain chemistry, when we forgive, changes everything on the aspects of life – emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically. 

Forgiveness fixes the mess we create upon ourselves.  Instead of living in a cage of restlessness - from annoyance, disappointment to hatred, we should create wings to soar higher.  The question to ask, cage or wings? – we get to choose which one we prefer.

Our actions and reactions are our own doings.  Life is a story and we are the stories.  All humans are more the same than they are different.  All humans want the same things, almost, out of life.  The true tragedy on humankind is in our perception on our differences over our similarities.

Life fails because our biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.  Instead, we always hurried to listen to reply.  We do not know that we should constantly learn to forgive on every aspect of our lives.

To save humanity, we are to forgive to unite each other.  We are not here, on Earth, to divide people.  We are here to advocate compassion and empathy in our hearts.  A life without knowing how to forgive will suffer from the arthritis of sorrows.

Life is a lot more fragile than we think.  We should treat ourselves, and others, in a way that leaves us with no regrets.  The only regret we should have would be the things we say badly about them, or about ourselves.

How often should we ask for forgiveness?  There is no limit on how many times we may ask for forgiveness.  The more we are to do it, the more we get to become humble, to be sincere and to care on the meaning of life.

Forgiveness has to be given with joy and that joy is the reward.  The undertaking has to be our biggest commitment for it heightens our humans’ dignity. 

We (as an individual) are nobody but an instrument.  It is in our interactions with each other that uncovers our identity, our purpose and to give meaning to life.  Forgiveness erases the past and the future needs the better us.  When we are able to forgive, we are letting love to be just is.  Doing so, we are living in peace with ourselves.