Forgiveness, and etc.

Mahatma Gandhi on said –
‘The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.

A woman once told how she forgave her mother, who was also her abuser. Her mother once suffered strokes and there was no one to look after her. The woman came to her mother and read to her every day by her bedside. Eventually, she came to love her mother and forgave her for all her past mistakes.

This story is truly inspiring. Nobody can be perfect. We all make mistakes and have our faults. It is not everyone who can control their anger or their urge to hurt, maim or harm someone in some way. There are always moments in our lives when we seriously want to go back in the past and change a moment. Everyone has a moment like this in their lives. But since we are not the avengers, we can’t go back in our past and collect our stones. This world has been made with many faults and mistakes. But in that sea there are also many attributes that make us Human. Forgiveness, Willpower, Happiness and many more. We can never be perfect and never were. The world can only survive as long as we uphold these attributes. Forgiveness is one of them. We can never control the past but we can control our future. Our destiny. We must forgive in order to live. There are always many people who harm you. And, contrary to popular belief, the people who forgive are the people who are strong. Many people make the wrongs of other people their cocoon, their protective layer. They live in this layer and delve deeper into it. But they do not realize that if they do not come out of this cocoon, they will die in it. Like the butterfly came out of the cocoon, we must fly our way out. The only way we can make a crack in it is to forgive. Realize, without forgiveness, we might have extinguished the flame of human kind. We might have fought each other to death. Would never have stopped rebellions, riots, and even normal day-to-day fights with your siblings. We might not have been to forgive even ourselves. Thus is the power of forgiveness. God has given us one of the most powerful weapons ever felt. It makes us stronger, gives us power over ourselves.

We must learn to harness this attribute. It is an important factor if we want to survive in this modern time. So, crack through the cocoon and look into the light. It is our only way out of the cycle of suffering.