Tag: healing

Forgive

1: to give up resentment of

2: pardon, absolve

3: to grant relief from payment

If someone had told me I’d spend a few days immersed in a ritual of forgiveness to others and myself, I would’ve looked at them like, “Huh?… What in the world are you talking about?” 

That look has been granted towards people and environments for many things, but forgiveness? That’s different. A subject I feel isn’t talked about enough. A subject I feel like speaking on a bit in this moment.

And trust… it’s only for a bit. Just a little piece of information that has come to me while in my genuine pursuit of forgiving. I will not hold you!

Forgiveness is for oneself. Forgiveness moves your life forward. In order to truly forgive, you must know why. Forgiveness comes from a deepened consciousness. Forgiveness comes from compassion. Forgiveness may include remembering, or not remembering. Or choosing not to remember. I think that’s up to the individual.

When I say “I forgive,” I give up the previous version of someone or something. When I forgive, I no longer harbor. When I forgive, I heal. When I forgive, I feel the shifts. When I forgive, I do it for me, to repair what I’ve lost, to slow down time. When I forgive, I understand why, and even as I’m immersed in it, it feels easy to say these words, but they are comfortable and uncomfortable at once. And the reason it’s uncomfortable is because I haven’t said them enough, because I’ve harbored so much. 

So from this moment forth, I strengthen my resolve to forgive.

I strengthen my resolve to forgive others.

And I strengthen my resolve to forgive myself.

There’s something on the other side when I forgive.

And if this resonates, this is for you too.

There’s something on the other side when you forgive.