Socrates had a famous belief that, no one does wrong on purpose. After all, we are each only ever doing the best that we can, given the information we know. And so, we should be generously willing to forgive.
Just imagine if you were never forgiven for all of your mistakes, how hard it would be to navigate through life. It’s not only a waste of time creating enemies, it’s self-destructive. Author Robin Sharma advises to remember the Chinese proverb: “before you go off to seek revenge, it is best to dig two graves.”
It’s best to forgive and keep moving forward in all of your relationships. Nobody is perfect, not even yourself, and a friend is so much more valuable than any misguided pride, holding a grudge against some kind of a sworn enemy.
Fox Michaels is a Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Practitioner from the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology. He is an intuitive leader with more than 15 years experience as a trainer. In his spare time, Fox writes the ongoing blog Like a Fox!, where he shares his fun, joyful approach to life and love, as his own way of contributing to the Human Potential Movement. When not reading from his library full of personal development books, you can find Fox enjoying the cinema perks of being on AMC’s A-List, and also working to make sure that he’s the most stylish man on his own Instagram page. Feel free to check out if he's succeeding with that @foxmichaels.
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