Wednesday 18 August 2010

Being Above Forgiveness.

I’ve long felt uneasy about the concept of forgiveness. There’s something egotistical about it, maybe even self-indulgent. If we could raise our consciousnesses to a level where we didn’t feel the need to blame in the first place, forgiveness would be redundant.

3 comments:

Mother Moon said...

a wonderful point and so true.. It is as if one has something to hold over ones head as a manner of manipulating them as they wish...

Jfromtheblock said...

That is quite true. I've noticed for a while now I've been having difficulty getting seriously angry at anyone. Sometimes people do things that I know I should really be angry about, but I just can't make any of it last - it's almost frustrating. I'm acting angry without any real anger. and forgiveness? No one has ever had to ask me for forgiveness :L The only person I might ever consider needing forgiveness is myself, and even then, I think I'm kidding myself.

JJ said...

What a fascinating thing to say. It doesn't surprise me. I still owe you some e-mails.