Forgive and Forget?

Have you ever heard the expression "forgive and forget"? I'm sure you have and if so, were you able to apply it? I, for one, hate when people use this statement. It's not always easy to forgive, although it's always possible. Forgetting, however, is something totally different. When something happens in your life that isn't so good, after a while some people think that all feelings should subside and that all is forgotten. This is where the statement "time heals" comes in. This one isn't always necessarily true either. True, after a while things seem to calm down and you don't have it running through your mind as much as you did in the past, but it's always there. It's etched into your mind like a carving on a stone. No matter how hard you try to erase it from your memory, it remains in the back of your mind.

Now, it's up to you whether you harbor bitterness or not. If you are one to hold a grudge, then you aren't even accomplishing the first half of the statement: forgive. Being forgiving is something that we should all make a habit of. Unforgiveness does nothing but make things harder on you as well as others. As I said, it's not always easy to forgive -- sometimes it seems absolutely impossible. Not true. Think about it... If God, the Creator of the universe and all that inhabit it, can forgive worthless sinners like us, then it is possible for us to forgive each other, no matter the circumstances. Ask yourself... Are you forgiving? Sometimes it takes a while to totally forgive someone. Don't intentionally harbor that bitterness in your heart toward a person. It makes no one suffer but yourself.

Like I said, even when we forgive we never forget. There are things in my life from my childhood that I've forgiven people for that still remains just as clear in my mind as if it happened yesterday. Although I have forgiven them 100%, I still remember.

Just live life willing to forgive those who do you wrong, willing to leave incidents in the past even though they will always remain etched into your memory. Don't hold a grude unless you like to make yourself suffer.

I've preached enough. The end.

-Smashlee

Watch your mouth

Enter into this world of fatal attraction
What calls for attention might just cause a reaction
This place of our dwelling has long been endwelled
By those creatures unseen with your secrets to tell
Look around, can't you see all the eyes upon you
The things you least expect, just expect them to do

Your tongue does more harm than your mind wants to fathom
Watch your mind, or that muscle will involuntarily spasm
Those jumbled up words cut like diamonds on glass
Watch the blood trickle down from a heart anticrass
Sympathy of a chum can no longer console
A heart torn to pieces and a ripped open soul

To a point so unbearable, his spirit is broken
He opens the cabinet and writes down words unspoken
A letter he writes to the ones left behind
Of the torment and anguish that's been raging inside
He looks in the drawer and then points to his head
Then lies on the floor on account of quick lead

So watch what you say because words are like knives
They push deeper than razors and lead bullets combined
They can lead to destruction or a path made of gold
So remember what's said is never untold
An unruly evil is the tongue so they say
So consider your words of unruly array

-Ashlee A. Anderson

-Smashlee