I recently listened to the audio book Psycho-Cybernetics read by Dan
Kennedy. He said this:
“A grudge is a heavy weight to bear.”
Let me tell you a true story:
I know a man who has carried a grudge
against some of his siblings for seventeen years. What a waste.
Seventeen years of nursing resentment,
anger, and hatred, all over a disagreement about the way some minor parts of
the family’s estate should have been handled.
No money was changing hands. No one was getting less than their share of
the estate. Yet he was challenged and
thus the grudge. What a burden.
The weight of that grudge has cost years
of separation from his siblings. No one
knows what it might be doing to him physically and mentally because he has shut
them off. What a tragedy.
Grudges
are a heavy weight to bear.
I’m not sure why I’m writing this
today. Mostly, I hope it will cause some
reader somewhere to recognize themselves and get over whatever grudge might
still exist. We have to reach the point
of forgiveness, resolve, release and let it all sink to the bottom of the
ocean.
Seventeen years is a long time to carry
that heavy of a load. One month is a
long time to carry that kind of a load.
You need a rest my friend. Lay it down.
Walk away from it.
Anne Lamott sums up our thoughts
beautifully.
"Not forgiving is like drinking
rat poison and then waiting
for the rat to die."
P Michael
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