These past few days, email-text-Friendster-Facebook messages from friends from way way back have kept on appearing in my Inbox — Anna (my Palaris sis na wala pa ring kupas, still looking good!), Chris (still a good friend), Meng (her text messages always amuse me), Joan (my roommate at Hostel Room No. 3), Bgynn (a former officemate), Joey (I bought my Beetle from him) —and other friends that I chose not to disclose lest I will be cited for contempt. Wahahaha!
One friend (not one of those I cited above) emailed me the other day to apologize for “being an awful person” in the past. Well, he already had me at thank you. That’s the only thing I wanted him to do for me to forgive and forget. As simple as that. He said that his life has now been totally transformed when he chose to strengthen his faith. Good for him.
Life is more worth living if we live without any baggage in our hearts. Forgiving people who may have hurt us in the past is a noble thing to do because it sets us free from any negative forces and energy that may be hampering our road to real peace, happiness, and lasting friendships. It feels good to be friends again with people with whom you started a good old friendship, to begin with.
On the contrary, there are some people (not all, ok?) who hardly find the courage and humility to forgive those who have done them wrong despite all possible efforts exerted by the one seeking their forgiveness. I would assume that there are really people who enjoy basking in the glory of showing off their pride and conceit that they are still being “pursued” and wanted (or so they thought), when in fact the only thing being asked of them is their forgiveness.
In reality, this kind of people bear the brunt of their own fears and insecurities so they would rather run away than face the issues head on once and for all, probably not because of hurt but immaturity. Isn’t it far better for people to finally part as friends than wallow in self-pity forever with all those endless he/she-treated-me-like-sh*t pronouncements?
Anyway, it’s still anybody’s ballgame. Anyone has the option to either live in painful what-ifs or live in peaceful what’s-nexts.
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