Not guilty
A friend accused me of something grievous recently. That accusation shook me.
I was surprised. Surprised he didn’t recognise how I tried to save the situation, that my motives were noble, and that the outcome just wasn’t favourable.
The more I explained, the more he grew uninterested.
I stopped. I didn’t need that drama.
All I needed to have done was simple. Admit.
Admit what I have done. To myself. And admit to him too. That was not a time to splash out judgement; it was a time for accountability.
Rather than trying to ‘save-face’, admitting is the first of many other steps. It is easy to honestly examine your motives and the options available to you when you are not trying to justify an action.
Once I was done admitting, I gave myself the gift of forgiveness. My friend and I discovered that though the accusation was false, there were other things I should have done better.
For us, consciousness became the key. Not blame, not guilt. But remaining conscious of every action and how that influences other things that are important in the grand scheme of things.
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