Learning how to Forgive is similar to building muscles. It requires one to willingly withstand external forces, knowing and anticipating the pain and discomfort associated with them. Much like muscle growth, your goals should be twofold: power training and endurance training. You need to be able to increase weights to get stronger, and you need to be able to repeat doing the same thing over and over to keep your tone. This means you always have to aim higher than your previous record in order to forgive those you think you can never forgive *and* remember to keep forgiving the ones that you think you have already forgiven too many times. What good does this olympic-grade forgiving serve? Like muscle growth, it serves, first and last, yourself. It allows you the capacity to forgive or comfortably tolerate your worst possible enemy and complainant: yourself. The first-hand, undisputed knowledge of what you have done to yourself mostly requires an olympic-grade forgiver. If you cant build that capacity within your own being you will still need someone to lift off your own weight upon your conscience and thats where you will be dependent on others: metaphysical or otherwise caretakers and tonics of the soul. Muscle growth and maintenance serves a similar purpose: it allows freedom of movement and comfortable, sustainable living-standards with the accepted price of continuous yet well-anticipated discomfort. Yet one advantage of muscle growth over that of forgiving is that you can individually or collectively enjoy the process by turning it into a game; with forgiving, however, it is always a solitary and mostly painful act. Weights try to talk you out of it, they may suddenly decide or reveal themselves to weigh more than what seems to be written on them and you cannot convince some of them that you have been able to carry them.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 02:32:54 +0000
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