Letting Go

Not a moment ago, I posted a blog about letting go on my personal blog. talking about grudges I have been holding and needing to get rid of those grudges. But why? It's just so much easier to keep hating someone, and so much more fun to keep gossiping about them. Or is it?
In the long run, how will putting someone down serve you?

Someone did something to you a few years ago and you still feel that burning hatred in your chest for them. You just want to keep hurting them however you can. Tear them down, ruin their lives. But it's so not worth it, because really, by holding onto that, you may be hurting them, but you're hurting yourself way more. I don't care if you don't believe in karma, you better believe that tearing someone down like that will come back to bite you in the ass. What is being a bitch to that person doing for you, really? Is it making you a better person? Or is it lowering you to their level?

Do I really need to tell you it's the latter? Because I think you all are smart enough to know that much.

You really don't like this person, so you talk shit about them and tear them down. But you're just making yourself into the type of person everyone - including you - hates. That's just ridiculous and petty and hypocritical. You should want to be better than them. You shouldn't stoop to that level, because it's not serving you or anyone else in the end.
Let go.
I know you can't control your feelings. If you hate someone, you hate them. But you can control the way those feelings affect you. You can be the bigger person, walk away, and let go. Let that person sink into the other faces you pass by in the hallways. No, I'm not saying forgive that person. In the end, the forgiving will happen on its own. Forgiving sometimes comes with forgetting, and by forgetting, that person gets a clean slate. You don't ever have to talk to them again, because of that impression they gave you, but just let it go, and in time, the rest will fade on its own.

~J*~

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