IF YOU CAN'T FORGIVE AND FORGET, PICK ONE
“Do not let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your future… Forgive and Forget.” - Anonymous M any a time, I think, that one of the greatest gifts God has endowed upon we humans is: the gift of ‘forgetting’… I did not say ‘endowed to elephants and ants’… I said, ‘endowed to we humans’! Similarly, I did not say the gift of ‘forgiving’… I said the gift of ‘forgetting’! The gift of forgiving – let’s call it gift of letting go – obviously, has been glorified since the beginning of Time. Therefore, there is no doubt over its significance in life. But, the gift of forgetting? Imagine, what would have happened to our lives had our unpleasant memories refused to go? Blessed are those, therefore, who have been endowed with the shortest of memories, when it comes to unpleasant events in life… We have, often, heard people saying, “I can forgive, but I can’t forget.” There is truth in this statement… To forgiv...