Forgive, Forget and Move On

The ability to put down insights and wisdom into simple words is hard. Of course this mandates having a clear thinking mind as a prerequisite, but still the art of writing clearly is a gift for a few only.

I read some very simple thought provoking lines recently. The source was quite unexpected i must admit. Here is a small excerpt from Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder.

There is no mystery to happiness.
Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn—or worse, indifference—cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn’t look ahead. He lives in the present.

I have not read any spiritual writings (am too young and naive for it yet), but i am pretty sure the simple thought above would have been elaborated at many places.

'Forgive and Forget' is a difficult saying to follow for many of us, but it indeed can heal most of our scars. I am not advocating accepting any injustice, but to those hurtful things that we think were unfair to us, we should 'Forgive, Forget and Move On'.