When I was still working, before I was terminated, I had quotations stuck all over the walls of my office. A number of those quotes were from Gandhi, the one in the title was my favorite. There have been many times in my life when I wanted revenge. I have come to understand that there is a difference between justice and revenge. And the even bigger revelation to me was that I don't get to dispense justice. And I am so glad about that. I wouldn't want that responsibility. I believe that the Universe dispenses justice, in fact I would go one step further and say that we dispense our own justice. When we deliberatly and with malice of forethought hurt someone, we set something in motion and that something will make a full circle and we will be hurt, usually more hurt that than person we did harm to. That is what I call Karma.
It also makes me very aware now of what I do and say, because I have hurt people and the suffered the Universe's consequences. It used to be difficult for me to say I am sorry, I was wrong. Now I say it as quickly as possible, and not for the sake of person I have injured or slandered, but for my own sake, it eases my own suffering. It is to bad that it takes us as long it does to learn these lessons. It seems we don't learn until we hurt enough. I believe that I have learned this lesson and I am grateful for that.
Thursday, February 17th, 2011.........11:46p.m.
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