Sometimes (almost all the time) I’d be willing to swear that I was born without the forgiveness gene.
I don’t know how everybody does it.
Like how do I not keep score? And how do I forget all the shitty things someone has done to me? Or at least look past it?
It’s not even a matter of the good outweighing the bad anymore. I’m just done. And it breaks my heart to know that my already small circle is getting smaller because somevery angry part of me refuses to shut the fuck up at give someone a second chance. I just don’t know how to do it.
How do you say to someone, “I needed you, I made it clear how much I needed you, there was no way there could have been any confusion. Yet you weren’t there, even though what I was asking for would have had zero effect on your life, you couldn’t see past your own reflection to the fact that I was drowning. Or that I still am. But that’s ok because we have some good memories and I’m sure in the long long long run this will even out”
The whole concept of forgiveness is crazy to me. It’s like to be considered human we have to continualy allow people to harm us without being able to say stop. Somehow this hurt and eventual forgiveness makes us better people. Like eventually you reach some higher moral or ethical status above those who refuse to be hurt. To me I will fight back and I won’t forgive because if I can live my life being kind and giving and honest I expect it from those around me, it should be the rule not the exception. And me allowing the types of people who don’t have the same views on morality and forgiveness into my life only ever weakens me.
So I don’t know maybe that angry, dark, painfull part of my soul that refuses to forgive is a defect the rest of the world doesn’t have. And maybe one day the whole forgive and forget thing will seem logical. But right now all I feel is hurt and tears.