Letting Go of Bad Things that Happen, Part 1 (TMF:2351)

Monday, May 13, 2024
Peace to Live By: Letting Go of Bad Things that Happen, Part 1 (TMF:2351) - Daniel Litton
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       Why is it often true that we don’t let go of bad things that happen? Well, I think it’s because in all honesty, it feels good to feel bad. What I mean is that there is definitely a benefit to feeling bad. When we feel we’ve been wronged, we get to play the victim card. We get to think to ourselves, “Oh, poor me. I’ve been victimized and taken advantage of.” A person’s whole being can be built around that idea. The problem with that, though, is that we cannot be moving forward in life if we are still sulking over something bad from the past. Anything we hold onto becomes like a weight tied to our legs that makes it harder and harder to move forward. No, we have to cut the weights off. And sometimes, that requires cutting off a few of the weights at a time. One thing I think that can help a person overcome holding onto things is the understanding that, in the instance where someone has hurt them, perhaps the other person really didn’t mean to. Perhaps they were just doing what they ‘believed’ was the right course of action at the moment. Later, it turns out, they were wrong.