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Forgiving Yourself

A Guide to Letting Go of Regret and Finding Inner Peace

By OJO OREOFEPublished 3 years ago 2 min read
Forgiving Yourself
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Anybody can make mistakes at some point in their life.

Why, then, does your world come to an end when you make the same mistake? Oh, you start seeing darkness; you're so hard on yourself; you struggle to forgive yourself; you struggle to love yourself again, you start feeling like the worst person; you feel like the murderer; you start feeling like everybody knows about your secret.

The reason we are so hard on ourselves is because we have something called self-righteousness yeah we have a veil of holiness we put on ourselves; everybody else can make mistakes, but not me, I am here inside the veil of holiness; I am here self-righteous. You're not. You're also a human being embrace the human experience that so when you start embracing The human experience you start having compassion towards even other people other people who are going through terrible things who are crying you will start having compassion and feeling the emotions of people who are going who have made mistakes and trying to correct them you you stop you stop standing on the platform looking down at them you start giving them love and you start wanting even to to be there for them even you might not understand why it is they did what they did but you you understand they're human they make mistakes you are also human; you have also made your own mistakes, even if it's not exactly what other people have done.

This means that every time you make a mistake, always remember that there are people who've done that mistake before you and there are people who are making the same mistake right now, so it's not like now the world is coming to an end or that you're the worst person.

Perfection is good, it's good to want to do things right and to want to do things to the best of your ability. But you will never be perfect. Remove that white Veil and throw it away. You are not perfect you are not righteous you are human like the rest of us making mistakes so every time you see someone has made a mistake somewhere, it may be your sister, your brother, your husband whoever, when you remove the veil of righteousness that self-righteousness being the deputy Jesus, you will start having compassion. Even to other people you start feeling sorry for them, you start wanting to be there for them and the same thing will happen when you also make a mistake moving forward you have compassion towards yourself and like I said on your worst day, where your presentation was Zero like it was the worst you could ever have done. On those days, come home for yourself, for your favorite glass of wine, cook yourself your favorite meal and watch your favorite TV series. Just do something to heal your wounds. There's no punishing yourself, the only thing you need from that experience is to learn the lesson, know that next time I need to prepare for my presentation one week in advance. I need to do better next time. End of story!

I wish you all the best. Thank you for reading and don't forget to like this post.

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About the Creator

OJO OREOFE

Hi there, My name is Ojo Oreofe. I am a professional writer with over two years of experience creating content for a variety of audiences. I have worked as a freelance writer for multiple publications. In my free time, I enjoy reading.

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