Friday, June 22, 2012

The importance of making peace with the past

I did this before, a few years ago in my previous blog, and I’m going to do it again. I’m going to give you a challenge. Especially you, who are constantly angry about the people and the things that happened to you in the past. The people who didn’t turn out the way you expected them to be. The things that ended ugly.

I am a human as much as you are. I know there are times when anger, disappointment, sadness, and painful memories haunt us so much we simply can’t run away. But that’s not really the point. I think what’s more important is how you channel those emotions and how you utilize them. For people like me, we write poems. We write stories.We write comforting words to hush our hearts even if they sound pretentious, hypocritical, or sugar-coated – it doesn’t matter. I believe everybody has his or her own ways of surviving and healing; you do too. You just need to be patient and find yours.

The bottom line is;
you don’t move on by bitching about people to others. You don’t move on by hating.
Hatred destructs no one but you.

So here’s the challenge: Write briefly about your former friends and/or your former specials. BUT, only the good things about them. 100% positive. And how you benefit from those relationships. The advantages of that experiences. No bad things, not even a word. You can leave it as a comment here or you can blog about it at your place and share.

If you manage to do this, if you manage to write about it from the sincerest corner of your heart, like you truly mean it and you deeply realize it, it’ll be your first step towards trying to stop hating. Because when we stop hating, it does wonders to our soul. And we will soon understand the importance of making peace with the past.

:)