The Art of Forgiving and Letting go: A hard personal goal

Per-nal

Zerayn D.

This is one of the personal goals and an internal matter that I have been working on. I need an improved degree of flexibility in order to easily forgive, easily forget and easily to let go. As someone with a melancholic temperament, dwelling on emotional struggles is critical. When hurt comes my way, it takes me a while to heal. The ability to easily forgive, forget, and let go has been something I’ve strived for, but it’s been an elusive goal. I’ve wished for “selected amnesia” many times to rid myself of painful memories, but reality is often harsher than our wishes.

On the other hand, I strive for this goal with a comforting hope that one day, it would hurt no more. After all, I also make mistakes and at times I wish others’ forgiveness.

my heart’s a labyrinth, a maze,
searching for the path to free myself from craze,
when hurt has been my constant companion,
a pain that lingers, a wound that goes on
I strive for forgiveness, for forgetting and moving on,
but melancholia weighs me down like a heavy stone,
I long for the ease of letting go,
but the pain clings to me, like a dark shadow
“selected amnesia,” a mirage I yearn,
a remedy, I fear, I’ll never earn,
for reality’s weight, will not succumb to my scheme,
and the pain, shall linger, amidst my brain
but a great love has come way
this love has taken worries as I pray
I’m striving, I am moving my heart to forgiving

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“A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.” Proverbs 19:11.