Forgive, for you!

I’ve noticed over the years that I don’t really get angry or mad, I get frustrated. At the core of my negative emotions there is never anger, it is always the frustration of things being out of my control that gets the best of me in times when I am not experiencing full complete happiness. So I’m working on taking a breather. Taking a step back and really internalizing that some things just don’t deserve a reaction, and especially not a reaction that is draining me.

Doing this has made me pay closer attention to the art of ~forgiveness~

Nothing says swallow your pride and accept disappointment quite like forgiving someone. My issue has never been with forgiving people, it’s with the feelings I have afterward that completely eat me up inside. Questioning why they did something that now needs to be forgiven is the part of forgiveness that gets to me.

Not that I’m an angel or never do anything wrong (although that’s another issue I have for another post), but I definitely do not seek forgiveness very often.

Forgiving people around you makes you feel lighter. You’re no longer carrying around that heavy feeling of disappointment because your standards of how you would handle something weren’t met. There’s silver linings in every bad thing that happens to you, learn from them. Take everything in as a lesson, if its not teaching you something then change the way you’re looking at it. You mindset is so powerful, you have the power to completely change how you view the world. Forgive those around you, nothing bad will come from it.

xoxo