If We Don’t Forgive, We’ll Die Bit By Bit

The daughter comes home and says to her father: “Dad, I can’t stand the neighbor anymore! I could kill them, but I’m afraid they’ll find me. Can you help me with that?”

The father replies, “Sure, my darling, but there is one condition. You have to make up with her beforehand so that nobody suspects you when she dies. You have to take good care of her, be kind, grateful, patient, warm, less selfish, always show yourself appreciative, listen to her more. Do you see that powder? Pour a tiny bit into her food every day. So she will die very slowly. “

After 30 days the daughter returns to her father and says:
“I really don’t want her to die anymore. I like her. And now? What can I do to make the poison ineffective? “

The father replies: “Don’t worry. What I gave you was rice powder. She won’t die because the poison was in you. “

When we hold grudges against someone, we slowly die. Let us learn to make peace with those who offend or harm us. Let us learn to treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. Let us learn to show the initiative in order to love, give, donate, serve, give and not just want to win ourselves and want to be served.

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When someone harms you, it’s like a snake bites you. The wound can be more or less large, but we can close it and heal it. It is bad when it comes to the bite of a venomous snake. The therapist José Antonio García notes that the most common poisons are revenge, an eye for an eye and the search for justice at all costs.

These poisons can stay inside us for years, eat us up from within and make our life lose its joy and hope.

Holding grudges is human, very human. But forgiveness is also human. And make mistakes. It is said that whoever does not love does not forgive. Indeed, it is love that makes you forgive. The love for another, for life, for the world and the love for oneself.

Forgiveness, which is sincere, does not exist if there is nothing to justify it. Kindness, responsibility, or indifference can be tried, whatever you want, but the only way to achieve it is through love.

In addition, one could say that forgiving is in a way synonymous with being free. If there is nothing that holds us, be it anger, fear or hatred toward the other, then there is nothing that justifies , included in our prison of resentment to live.