Forgiveness And A Good Conscience Serve As A Good Pillow
Having been able to forgive someone who has hurt me or have the assurance that I have acted in the best way than I could have, helps me feel better about myself and avoid the headache caused by something that worries me. I have made my mistakes and they have made them with me, but I have rectified and accepted that they did.
It is said that, in general, when worries imprison the mind, they do not allow them to live and, above all, to go to bed calmly enough. For this reason, it is why, in the same way, I can affirm that understanding what the action ‘apologize’ means and putting it into practice always serves as a good pillow.
The act of asking for forgiveness
Elvira Sastre used to say that a life without courage is an infinite way back and she was not wrong about anything, because I have always had in mind that the courage to ask for forgiveness was followed by the greatness of forgiving.
In other words, an act like ‘asking for forgiveness’, which requires a bit of self-criticism, self-analysis and above all a lot of humility, is followed by the reward of becoming a better person.
The act of asking for forgiveness saves me because it implies assuming my own mistakes that could have hurt other people, sometimes very dear to me. In the latter case, it is most likely that I did it unintentionally, but I have, and I feel better if I ask for forgiveness and am forgiven.
Giving forgiveness to others, forgiving myself and earning them forgiveness has helped me flee from resentments, discomfort, wounds that did not close, from a past that did not let me look to the future.
What, in this context, is called ‘good conscience’
The act of ‘asking for forgiveness’ is inherently added to ‘conscience’, understood here as the judge who dictates my behavior: he recriminates me, flatters me, gives his opinion about me and is sincere.
A bad conscience for some wrong act or a bad word said, upsets me, enervates me and worsens my health : it becomes a pillow that does not let me find my hole and does not allow me to rest.
When I sincerely ask for forgiveness and they forgive me, or vice versa, that pillow I was talking about is transformed: now I find my place in bed and in life, with myself and with others. Having a ‘good conscience’ becomes one more step forward and one more door that I close, turning my back on a past that I have learned from.
Everybody has ever asked for forgiveness
The fact of asking for forgiveness, especially when I have been wrong a lot, has been able to cause me shame; because nobody likes to go back and admit that they did not get it right.
However, I know that everyone has asked for forgiveness at some time and that it is something necessary : nobody is perfect and everyone is wrong, as they say. That is why no one is excluded from the gratifying act of ‘asking for forgiveness’.
For when you need it and correct yourself if you are not right, do not judge yourself when you do not deserve it, be humble but do not humiliate yourself; Always recognize that no one, as much as you, can live without forgiving or being forgiven.
