“If you didn’t do well, forgive yourself, forgive the system and move on.” Alexander Noble said, “Everyone has got a prison for them, where they lock themselves up and sometimes throw away the key. That prison is the past, and the key is forgiveness.” There is one thing no matter how hard you try you just can’t take away from life, and that is mistakes. You will always make mistakes, and you will always come to the knowledge of your mistakes, but that is not to break you down and keep you from ever rising above your mistakes. Sometimes people would even identify you by the mistake you’ve made, but it is also not to break you down. Learn to forgive yourself for the mistakes you have made and move on.
There are a lot of opportunities out there that if you fail to forgive yourself, you will never get the chance to see. Refusing to forgive yourself is like dwelling on your past and locking yourself up in it. The past has its lessons, and it often serves as a reference point to us, but it is never a place to pitch your tent. Visit it, get what you need and move on with your present to your goal. It is our imperfections as humans that make us strong. Each day we overcome our imperfect self, we become stronger and more perfect than we were. You will never know the beauty in what lies ahead of life if you don’t learn always to forgive yourself.
Sometimes people would have forgiven you and moved on already, but you are still holding yourself down with the feeling of unforgiveness for no one but yourself. You’ve got to fight that thought, you’ve got to rise and tell that feeling that hey, look here, I know I made a mistake, I messed up big time, and I am not proud of it. But this guy here, this guy now, he has got to move on, and I am moving on. I forgive myself, and I am getting out of that prison. It is when you have truly done this that you will be free to move on and enjoy life.
You need to understand that your entire self; your body, spirit, and mind do not listen to any other voice. They listen and pay attention to only your voice and the voices you choose to listen to. This implies that, if you don’t assure yourself that you have forgiven yourself and begin to live as you have forgiven yourself, there is no way you will get out of the mess you made. Learn to silent the whispers of your past that will soon become the loudest voice you will be hearing. Learn to silent those whispers with forgiveness. It is as simple as not forgiving yourself and even easier than it. Challenge yourself every day to move out of it. Tell yourself each time the thought of your past tries to cloud your head that you have lived there before and you were done living there already. Let it know that you recognize what happened, and you have been served your share of it, but right now, you are moving on.
