This coming week I’ll return to talking about careers with a focus on living through the pandemic.
For the last blog entry of the current week I want to talk about something no one else has talked about:
Forgiving yourself and others.
I think too that each of us needs to forgive the pandemic for disrupting our lives. The outbreak isn’t a real person yet it has damaged a lot of us.
Anxiety and depression were on the rise when people were forced indoors for months on end seemingly without end.
Individuals who work the 12 Steps in addiction recovery are supposed in one of the Steps to make amends and ask for forgiveness.
My contention is that even though a person might not have an addiction you can benefit from taking an inventory of your actions. And asking for forgiveness if you feel something you did harmed another person.
Living through the lingering COVID-19 outbreak I think is the perfect time to engage in a self-improvement project like this.
It’s because in our lifetime none of us has ever had to cope with a setback as challenging and severe as the pandemic.
This is the perfect time to forgive yourself and others.
How many of us can say we’ve been doing everything we’re supposed to do every day of the week?
We are human beings not machines. And sometimes the best of us break down.
Forgiveness is called for. To forgive is to heal.
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