Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Unclenching your fist
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"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist"
Quoted from Indira Gandhi, this quote which appeared in my quote of the day column reflected some thoughts that I have for the past few days.
'Shaking hands' symbolises acceptance while 'clenched fists' represents enclosing yourself, harbouring on negative thoughts and not being able to let go. Indeed, this thorn in my flesh had been there for months and despite my best efforts to ignore it, it was always there to bug me, to remind me of the unbearable memories.
Forgiveness is what this sentence is about, according to my interpretation. In order to embrace yourself and others, you have to first relief yourself of troubles and worries.
Someone from that past incident asked me for my forgiveness sometime ago. At that point of time, I was incapable of giving. Forgive and forget. I could only disguise the latter as the former and hopefully the someone will stop bothering me.
'Time heals all wounds,' Shung had said. I didn't believe. Now I did. I don't think that someone cared about receiving this forgiveness anymore but to me, and I don't care if he does.
This post is just an announcement sort of, to myself, that I am ready to unclench my fist and shake hands with myself again.
Three cheers to this momentous step, and maybe after this, I can bear for my hair to be long again. :)
