Sometimes a walk down memory lane can be painful; other times it can be pleasant. Many times, when you’ve found you’ve truly forgiven someone, that walk can be much more pleasant than it would be if forgiveness hadn’t been reached.
Let’s take my more bitter days, for instance. There was a time not too awful long ago, where the sound of certain songs would throw me into this warped mindset known as dreadful combination of depression and bitterness.
“What lovely times? We never had any lovely times together. I loved him unconditionally, and he did nothing but cheat on me and break my heart. He was my first love—my true love. He was the one, and he ruined it all.”
At first, no, we don’t think of how we felt each time we looked into that person’s eyes. We don’t think of the happiness and the butterflies we had when around that other person. It is said that forgiveness is reached when you can truly look back and remember the good times you and the other person had together, however few and far in between they may have been.
When forgiveness isn’t reached, we look at future relationships as having somewhat of a Murphey’s Law effect—“if anything can go wrong, it will.” When picturing future relationships, this individual will begin to think of the other person as a Viper or a Python. They become envisioned as these poisonous creatures who have no other purpose in life other than to attract their prey and proceed to suck the life out of them—feed on them until they’re finished and ready to move on to the next.
Moral of the story: As hard as it may be, a walk down memory lane doesn’t have to be painful. When we learn to internally forgive another person, these walks can be a beautiful thing rather than a horrible train wreck.
Blogophilia 49.2 Topic: "Walk Down Memory Lane"
Bonus points:
(hard, 2 pts): incorporate a Murphy's Law
(easy, 1 pt): mention a species of poisonous snake
Final date to post Feb. 9th, 2010 midnight GMT
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