Forgiving Myself...

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.” - Maya Angelou.

Is it really that important to forgive yourself ?

Well I think its absolute essential to forgive yourself, it can actually make a world of difference in our own attitude towards life and can also shape your character in a much more positive way. Yes it definitely is important to seek forgiveness from others, but if you cant forgive your own mistakes than what good will others do ? If ever you make a mistake try to seek forgiveness and mean it, also try to forgive your own mistakes because that way our inner self can grow, but if we cant forgive our ownselves than we can never grow, we can never live up to being a Human Being.

Forgive your ownself, and grow bigger in life, but try never to make a mistake so big, that no one will forgive you...