It’s infuriating to me, this new thing in our society.
“You decide your feelings and reaction to those that hurt you”
I call bullshit to this!
It’s proclaiming that what one feels is invalid. Placing the blame of hurt feeling on those wronged instead of those who wronged you. Since when have we become a society of unaccountability?
Each and everyone of us has hurt someone deeply. Either by words or actions. It is our responsibility to accept full ownership of those choices and endure the consequences.
Where has empathy gone? Just because we don’t want to hear or see how our actions have hurt someone, none of us get to simply decide that we didn’t hurt them.
We can not ask for forgiveness without sincerely bearing witness to what we have caused.
Will it be hard to endure? Absolutely! But not nearly as painful as it is to the one suffering.
Then we must be consciously aware, that although the apology, like a bandaid, covered the wound so that it could heal, when you rip away there will always be a scar.
RaenellDawn 08/17/2017
