Monday, September 24, 2007

Relax and let it go


"Blaming others gets us nowhere. If something is done, it is done.
Griping about it changes nothing. Blaming the weather never helped anybody.
The same goes with blaming otherpeople..."

Relax... And let it go (go with the flow).
It’s about time we start getting off our ass and move on and stop dwelling on what seems like a hell of "regrets" and "blames". What's done is done. Stop repeating history by always remembering or mentioning it. The more we sit on things, the more it will fester.

Same principle applies for asking sorry.
Saying "sorry" the second (or the third, or the fourth, or the fifth) time wont overshadow the first time you said it. That is if the first was indeed sincere.
Repetition of it would only imply the weakness of its purpose. Repeating it again and again is like rubbing two stones together inside a barn full of hay. It signals danger. It will only create fire. And sometimes, this fire never ceases. It blazes anew, creating an even bigger danger.

You see, every time you say it, it'll only remind the other party of the things you’ve done wrong. It’s like making the wound heal then twitching it until it bleeds again. As I have said, "what is done is done..." There is no need to keep repeating it.

Although there are of course those people who had been wronged, who feel the need to hear apologies repeated. They usually are those who had not absorbed the initial apology for reasons personal to them. I do not blame them; emotions are incumbent upon man and almost always are beyond their control.

I do not always ride on the same boat with them, I still feel like one sincere apology is enough… provided of course that such apology was done timely or at the correct moment, considering the emotion of the person having been wronged.
(But take note still that cases may vary.)