I don't want to forgive. It's not natural. Why must we incessantly continue to portray these qualities that aren't human. I know love is a great thing, but forgiveness is too great a task. Does God not realize what I endured?
Those thoughts go through my mind so often. Humans have this mentality that believes we are truly entitled for something. We have this overestimated sense of self that tells our worth to the world around us.
In actuality, there's not much we can do. A few years from now, we will be rotted corpses returned to the dust that we began from. We are entitled only to our death.
Forgiveness is sadly one of those few things that goes beyond what we want to believe we can do. But it is one of the few life giving things that we have. Think about it: when you do not forgive, it hurts you. It toils within you. Grows killing relationships. Killing your feelings. You don't win.
Maybe then forgiveness should be considered "unnatural" because unlike every other "natural" thing it promotes the one thing we don't deserve. True life...
Sunday, April 29, 2007
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I think it's very ironic that we so often do not give to others the one thing we think we deserve from them. Saying it is one thing, but true forgiveness is another. What we need to realize is that by truly forgiving someone else, we really are freeing ourselves from negative pent up feelings. It's better for us than it is for them. Very nice thoughts...
I'm curious about why you didn't talk about forgetting in your post, thought it was in the title. I am all for forgiveness, but I'm not really in support of the idea that pairs forgiveness with forgetting. I was wondering what your take on it was.
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