But, if we were supposed to forget, then won't that allow for the bad to happen again? Don't we need to remember who burned us and what preceded the burn in order to walk a wide mile around it?
Otherwise we will keep getting used by the same people over and over and...
No, I figure that is why we have memories.
The whole 'Sting me once shame on you, sting me twice shame on me' thing.
Now the forgiving part is the thing I have problems with.
I have justified not forgetting, but mean people who hurt you to be mean? Nope. They need to ask to be forgiven. I need to know they understand that they were not nice.
But if say, my neighbor ran over my mail box, that's forgiven. It is a mistake. If they rev-ed up, gunned it and flatten the thing because they are just nuts, then uh-nope. no forgiving there. And I need to always remember it and give them a wide berth.
Fortunately we have wonderful neighbors, so. no probs.
However, vacuum cleaners and I have the same relationship as Krista has with hers.
grrrrr. stupid vacuum cleaners and their snooty attitudes.
Vacuum cleaners and I get along just fine - I never use them. My father could be the most open, giving man in the world - until you did him wrong. Then you were dead to him. He and his father had a 'falling out' when I was an infant, and my father severed his relationship with my grandfather at that point. I never saw the two of them together. Sad.