Forgiveness.....
We always heard the saying 'forgive and forget'. But what does that really mean? Can we really truly forgive and truly forget?
In my opinion, it's quiet easy to forgive but it's definitely something that we can never forget. It's there kept in the storage of memory lane. When something bad happens again, all that info will be retrieve from the archive and we will remember everything so very clearly.
You can be the nicest person in the world but forgetting is not something we can really do. Unless if you are 'gifted' with the short term memory ability like me.
Sometimes I can never remember what the person have done me wrong. I was amazed at myself sometimes. The person who did me wrong normally won't really tell everything what he/she have wronged me in the past that makes me cleared them out of my path. But when things starts to happened, then I kinda know somehow why i have cleared that person away from me.
Not that I never forgive, it's just kept in the storage of my memory lane and it was being retrieved when something happened. Effortlessly, all the information starts coming through and making me sad and disappointed with myself why did i allow me to go through it again with the same person.
Forgiving doesn't have to be having that person around us. If that person is really toxic for us, we don't have to have them around. Sometimes we are better off without them no matter how they said they have changed.
Human are capable of changes. That I do believe so very much from the core of my soul. Expectations in life doesn't makes us a mean person. It just shows we know what exactly we really truly want for our own greater good.
Life is never perfect in any form or ways. But we can make it complete for us by making some decisions that's good for us.
Forgiving is one of the things that is essential for all of human kind if we want to live life well.
Forgiveness can come from many space. It can come from the space of love, sympathy or it's not worth the time holding on to it.
Remember forgiving never always have to be forgetting. It's just that we are more aware of what we have gotten ourselves into in the past and learned from that wonderful experiences.
We are mad at those people that treat us wrong. Yes! But we don't need to hold on to them and keep grudges.
Let them go!
Just like what Michelle Obama said, "When they go low, we go high."
We don't have to retaliate and treat others bad the same way they treated us. Set a higher standard of living life.
Higher standard of living life doesn't only means wealth it is also means that we have better principles in life. We know when to treat people well.
May we walk life with head held high and high standard of living. Treating people well the same way we wanted to be treated.