Thursday, March 11, 2010
Forgiving Ourselves
After watching "Tuesdays With Morrie," I found a quote that stuck out to me- mainly because it is relateable towards my life. "We...need to forgive ourselves...For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened." The true meaning of this passage is that you should forgive yourself because if you didn't do the things you didn't do then you wouldn't have done the things you did do. Simply, don't live your life with regrets. Don't live in a world of "what ifs." I always had wondered that if I didn't act out a certain way, then how could that situation have gone differently. But, there is a reason we acted that way, because it's what we felt. Although many of us play back in our heads what we should've done, I believe that everything happens for a reason. In the movie, Mitch regrets not seeing Morrie earlier, until the day he founds out he is getting very ill. Since he hadn't set out to do that until 16 years later, Mitch made a living for himself becoming a sports journalist. All I'm really saying is that, live your life by the moment... and if something passes you by, it was meant to be because everything happens for a reason.
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itsvery true that everything happens for a reason. there was a reason that mitch came back to see morrie every tuesday
ReplyDeleteI live by a motto I made up, and I kinda think it goes along with what you say about regrets. ' Never regret that which once made you happy', I say it alot to my friends who have bad breakups. And along with that we should never regret even the bad things that happened in our lives, because we learn through experience, we learn from our mistakes.
ReplyDeleteGreat quote and great advice to hold onto. I think (as you will see later this chapter) that our culture teaches us to be harsh on ourselves and we need mostly to forgive ourselves and then we can begin forgiving others.
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