Real Talk!

Day 8- Someone who made your life h*ll, or treated you like sh*t.

Oh, I have a list... somewhere in the deep recesses... once I have listed someone, I forgive them and then forget them. I don’t want to carry that pain around all the time.

I have always felt that you can’t avoid being wounded... but you can avoid suffering... and you can drop toxic people who haven’t dealt with their stuff and are nasty for it. &, in my experience, they know what they've done and know better than to try to mend things.

We all instinctively know when things are irreparable- I may forgive, I can't forget.

Off the top of my head, I thought of some family, some friends, a doctor or two, a number of colleagues in the industry, some clients, an ex-husband (or two or three)... and some others...and I thought about posting pictures... I’ve heard they’re worth a thousand words a piece. I thought of posting first names... and then, I thought better of it.

It wouldn't be productive, anyway. What's done is done. Old news. & as for my wounds, they've healed and I have released the pain to the universe, with love. I'm not vindictive, in spite of the fact that it is very likely that one of them was truly trying to kill me.

I prefer to remember the people who have always been kind... speaking of which....

A old acquaintance recently sent me a web link to a wonderful site...

http://www.wowzone.com/wowintro.htm

The philosophy here resonates well with my own.

WOW: Wish Only Well