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We’ve all heard it before — “Be in the moment.” It’s screened onto coffee mugs, whispered in yoga studios, printed on posters everywhere. And if you’re anything like me, maybe it used to drive you a little nuts. What other moment could I possibly be in?
No time to read? Listen here: “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” is an episode from the original Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling and based on the fable The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont.
The episode depicts a dystopian future where beauty is everything. By age 19, every young person must go through a full surgical transformation. They get choose from a few “perfect” body types.
No time to read? Listen here: Have you ever heard someone say that people are like icebergs?
The part of a person we see — the way someone acts, what they say, the version of themselves they show us — it’s all just the top. A tiny peak above the surface.
The biggest part of the iceberg is under the water, invisible.
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Of course, the word forgive is often coupled with the word forget, as in forgive and forget.
But beautiful someone, let’s take a closer look: we need to forgive, first for our own sake. It’s not a coincidence that we use phrases like “let it go” and “drop it” to talk about moving on. Unforgiveness is heavy. It allows bad experiences to literally weigh on us. It’s profoundly unhealthy to hold on to old offenses and cart them around with us like a wagon full of bricks that, let’s face it, just gets heavier as time goes by.
Forgiveness is designed to set us free.
But, and I say this with profound respect for your personal pain, be careful about the forgetting part.
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We’ve got a range of ways to respond when someone is being thoughtless, unfair, or rude to us.
Walking away is one of them.
On the outside, walking away may look passive, but walking away from a combustible situation, not out of politeness or fear of confrontation, but out of strength, actually shows some mega-power.