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FORGIVENESS WAS NEVER ABOUT THEM.

9 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker argues that conventional teachings about forgiveness are fundamentally mistaken. Rather than viewing forgiveness as an outward act that requires the other person’s acknowledgment or deserving, the speaker proposes that true forgiveness is an internal process. It involves the higher self guiding an individual to release fear—a weight taken on during painful moments—and to lay down that burden. This reframing positions forgiveness as a personal liberation from fear, not a surrender to or acceptance of the other’s actions.

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I've been told across many sessions that we have forgiveness wrong, not slightly, fundamentally. We've been taught it's something you extend outward, a release that you essentially grant to someone else, one that requires them to deserve it, or at minimum, just acknowledge what happened. And because of that, framing, it feels more like a type of surrender, like saying, what happened was acceptable and excusable when it wasn't. That's not what forgiveness is. The version the higher self points towards has almost nothing to do with the other person. It's the release of fear that was never serving you, the laying down of a weight that you picked up in a moment of pain and carried forward because you didn't know you were allowed to put it down.