Men and The Goddess

So, we all have encounters with others from time to time, more often than not. And sometimes those encounters can go off-kilter; part of being human, part of the ebb and flow of human relationships. The encounters that go ary can create emotional baggage we carry well beyond the actual effect of the interaction.

One of the biggest lessons for me (the biggest is patience) is to let go of emotional baggage. My means to this end is through forgiveness. Here’s a definition I frequently refer to to help with my lesson:

Forgiveness: “a decision to see beyond the limits of another’s personality; to be willing to accept responsibility for your own perceptions and shift them repeatedly and transform yourself from being a helpless victim of your circumstances to being a powerful and loving co-creator of your reality.”
–Robin Casarjian

With this in mind, and with a fresh off-kilter encounter I’m releasing, I offer this:

Forgiveness

Say you are sorry!

I don’t want to.

You need to get beyond this.

            Why do I have to?
            It was their fault!

Wait a minute.
What role did you play?

            They started it.
            They called me names!
            It hurt my feelings.

Why did they call you names?
What did you do?

            I made a mistake.
            It was just an oversight.
            No harm was intended.

Say you’re sorry for the error.

I did; I feel bad for that.
But I’m only human and
The name calling hurts.

Can you get over it?

            Yes.

Say you are sorry!

            Sorry!

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