Thursday, January 5, 2012

Forgiving Forgiveness

What is to forgive someone and what is to forgive something?
Forgiveness is a word, more precisely, a noun but what comes to the mind when the word arises?
Apologizing is a way, but what if apologizing itself isn't true forgiveness?
Admitting or confronting oneself's wrong doing is another, but what if it is not enough to forgive?
Then, what is forgiving and forgiveness?

A boy, who know not much but enough to say said, "People deserves a second chance.."
But, mind you that a second chance does not mean a second time or a second forgiveness. Its about knowing that at one level, up to a certain point, where you have now nothing to loose but only to gain, that doing something, ridiculing and taking things for granted just because of one, two, or maybe ten incidents is not something i would say, forgiving. It is definitely not forgiveness and what more of forgetting and moving forth?

One woman married a man, got abused later on just after her second child, with her first born traumatized with the incident stayed in deep void for, what knows like, months. And then, there comes this time, she starts to stand up and lead her life being a single parent, leaving that filth to rot, and smile to her very own parents whom she once deserted because of the trauma. Next, she, who was jobless, dependent on her parents, one of whom is a handicap and another, a housewife illiterate, now took up a job and got a car, insurance for her two children and fed them well. A woman once fell into the fangs of a devil is now making ends meet with a smile. As people start to look up to her, there comes this one other individual that picks on the past, calling her a fool for loving a fool. That individual disowned this woman, saying, she does not deserve respect, honour, and love. That same individual laughed at her misfortunes and clanked wine glasses together for a drink.

One boy who went to school to study, that came from a town, where clubs and discotheques were uncommon, was misjudged, and ridiculed for knowing nothing. This boy, looked like a someone who knew not much but enough to speak was then somehow deserted indirectly. Soon, this very boy became a mat like item, was laughed and left aside by tales of once he shared and received. Later, this boy became a ghost and talked to himself, started a new way of life. He became topics of conversation among the teachers. He became a pre-star among those divas and real stars. He became a person! Like a balloon, that is kicked from one corner to another, that balloon tore a slit and flew high into the skies inflating itself and dropping in a whole new place.

One can say that he or she has forgave that person, that woman, and that boy. However, that very person should know what his or her words mean. A simple acceptance of one's mistake is not just an act of conscience but it has got to be an act of will, pureness, and most of all, it should last. It is like, a boar saying that a pig is so pink that it looks like Barbie's next pet, but unknowingly, it is also that very black boar become the hunted pet of mankind. There is nothing good nor nothing great of making one look small, minute, insignificant or indistinct because at the end of the day, it is only the pot calling kettle black.

To forgive is to know that you have no more thoughts of that person, but respect and honour.
To forgive is to know that it lasts, and even if it is broken, to that person who forgave, it must last.
To forgive is to know that you are a person too and the next, it may be you who devastates for acceptance.

There is a reason why the Earth is a sphere, a circle in two dimensional view and not a square, a triangle or a prism. What goes around comes around, just like a ball, you kick it, and as it hits the surface, it is reflected and aims back at you.

That is forgiving and forgiveness.

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