I believe we can forgive ourselves for anything. I believe we can forgive others for anything. And I believe that we can forgive anyone. We are all capable of making a different choice. Our society is designed to make us feel guilty for even thinking about making a different choice. I'm not talking about being a bad person. I'm talking about being human. When something happens to us that hurts, it hurts very deeply. It hurts for weeks, months, years, or even decades.
That hurt is a feeling, not a specific event.
The feeling itself lingers inside of us.
If we don't learn how to process those feelings, they can cause us to behave differently in the future.
For example, if someone says something negative to you and you take it personally, you might avoid him or her completely in the future.
This can be a problem.
If you can't find a way to forgive that person, you're probably not going to be able to move forward in life.
How to Move Forward: Stop Trying to Make Sense of Pain
So what does this have to do with forgiveness?
It all comes back to your ability to choose a new thought.
The reason you can't make sense of the situation is that it's a feeling.
To think logically, we need to be able to make sense of things.
But what if you choose to be able to make sense of things? What if you choose to let go of that hurt and forgive the person who hurt you? Think about the last time you felt hurt by a person. How did you feel? You can choose to feel the same way again. Or you can choose to forgive the person and move on.
It's your choice. What you choose to feel matters. It makes a difference. The fact that you're reading this right now is proof of that. In order to be a success, we need to choose a different thought. To stop making sense of pain and forgive that which we cannot understand.
It’s important to forgive and move on