Every slight, hurt or violation we cling to weighs upon our psyche. Independent of any objective assessment of our ‘rightness’ or someone else’s ‘wrongness’, we alone suffer from chaining ourselves to these burdens. Accumulated over years (lifetimes), they create a heaviness that bogs us down, progressively disenchants us and depletes our life force. The art of living joyously requires recognizing what we’re holding onto and freeing ourselves from this bondage by letting go at every available opportunity. We don’t let go because we’re nice or saintly. We do it to…
Be free.
I love that one. I feel the same way. I forget intentionally and unintentionally the insults or the follies that people do to me. Not because i am a “good man”or something but because it is exactly like you said; it is a burden and it weighs me down. I am not a saint, i am just selfish and i love myself.
Thank you Mostafa! 🙂