Letting go is not a weakness

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The longer that we hold our challenges, our problems, our worries, our anxieties about uncertainties, the more pain they can do to us, one of the most moving and powerful quotes i have come across is from Nelson Mandela where he said;

When i walking out the door towards the gate that would lead to my freedom, i knew that if i didn't leave behind my bitterness and hatred I'd still be in prison
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We pollute our consciousness when we allow envy and anger to enter the inner cores of our minds bringing in negativity, injecting anxiety and uncertainty into the way we think, that's why Mahatma Gandhi said;

I will never let anyone walk through my mind with dirty feet
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But often we see that it our own very shoes that are causing the dirt, forgiveness and letting go and the ability to rise above the challenges that have been caused by others in our lives is such an important ability because we need to learn to accept apologies that we never received.

I believe that you can't fix yourself by breaking someone else, it just like what Malachy McCourt said;

Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die
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When we recognize that actually by holding any negative feelings towards another individual simply harms the way we think, that's when we would truly be able to forgive, move on, let go and realize that internal healing is what lets us take care of the external circumstances, and this is not easy at all because we've been caused pains, sometimes to the extreme lengths, sometimes our hearts have been broken, sometimes our trust is being misused, sometimes we are being exploited, sometimes our loyalty has been tested, and that why forgiveness doesn't prevent the behaviour but it prevents the behaviour from negatively affecting us, our ego wants us to put others in their place but we should try to put ourselves in their place.