Forgiveness - without the strings attached
Forgiveness seems like such a noble concept doesn't it? You forgive somebody for wrong doing, and everybody moves on with their lives happier and a little bit closer than before. When you're a child it seems so simplistic and it's portrayed as something you just have to suck it up and do, whether you want to or not. But what if the person or people who wronged you did something really terrible? Something really harmful, abusive or cruel. Should you still have to forgive them? Most major religions seems to say that you should, and this is where the whole concept of forgiveness becomes rather problematic to say the least. We've got forgiveness all wrong I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that the type of forgiveness we were taught in the playground is not the kind of forgiveness we need as adults. It's noticeable that people in the holistic or "light worker" communities like to talk about grand concepts like unconditional love an