Forgiveness...

How do you love yourself? I mean how much do you love yourself? What is it about you that is stopping you from loving yourself unconditionally? Why can't you just give in to that unconditional self love that would free
you from all the suffering of the people who have hurt you/ you've hurt or of the past that continually haunt you? Or of the future that terrifies you? Or of the now that you can not even start living bcoz you do not love yourself enough?

Inner self-forgiveness. Give yourself the gift of forgiveness. Sometimes when other people commit mistakes on us we can easily forgive them. But when we are on the culprit side of things, we can not immediately forgive ourselves. Why??? Why can we easily forgive others, but ourselves- no way? Have we put ourselves on a pedestal that we are not supposed to do any wrong? How can we highly think of ourselves to the extent that we can not forgive ourselves' shortcomings? And how can we just look at others just like that and think what they've done is forgivable bcoz they are not you? Never look down on anyone, unless you are going to help them. Whatever happened to the, "we are all one"? And that we are all created uniquely Equal?

There is one person that really helped me so much and is still helping me through every steps. I know the steps are mine to take. This person can only say so much, but whatever it is I say or do--will always be on my account. Even if i love or hurt myself in the process, it is still my call. But, I'd always choose to forgive myself, bcoz if I can't, who will? Of course, I'm not saying it's that easy specially if you've hurt the ones you love, but goodness!!! You are worth it anyway!

What I'm trying to say is, it isn't bad to forgive yourself even when others can not forgive and forget. It isn't selfishness. Bcoz I believe that people will hurt us, one way or another. We just really gotta choose who are worthy of our suffering. I mean nobody's perfect. We are not without flaws either. But if we will never love ourselves unconditionally, without reserve, who will? Everything starts from us. We can not be unconditional to others, unless we are to ourselves. And when we have it, bear in mind that we have to give it, to keep it.

Forgiveness is the best form of healing, there ever was. I can be a witness to that!
Much love *_~

Photo credit: Boyet Avila ( yep! I stole this from my brother! Hik! Hik!)