They Are Not Out To Get You - Are They?
After receiving a comment on the Angel Affirmation blog “Forgiveness”, it made me think about situations in life when we miss the valuable lesson we are being given by someone else because we feel they have wronged us and are “out to get us”.
We are faced on a daily basis with lots of situations some challenging some not. Most of the time if we are faced with someone being less than nice to us, we are less than nice back, if we have a few people doing this to us we tend to feel “everyone is out to get me”.
But just sit back a minute and look at the situation, are you being given a lesson here by the very people who you are faced with, have you found yourself in a similar situation before where the critism was the same, or the same actions were being taken against you, have you stood on the other side of the coin?
Sometimes we are put into certain situations so we can learn how to act rather than react., and that situation will come up time and time again until we get the lesson, it isn’t always with the same people either. Sometimes we will find ourselves on the opposite end to something than we have previously been, so we know how it feels to be in that position.
It is all part of the lesson, all part of helping us learn how to act. I recently changed the way I acted towards someone and you know I came away from the situation feeling rather proud of myself and at peace because I know the way I acted was the right thing to do, because in finally learning the lesson myself I have now freed up the other person to learn their lesson.
For forgiveness to truly work, first you have to forgive yourself, which means looking at the part you have played in the scenario, you may have done nothing wrong, you may need to forgive yourself for doubting yourself or for allowing yourself to be drawn into someone else’s drama, finding the answer will free you and the next time you are in the same situation you will feel differently and therefore act differently.
Remember You are the Teacher, You are the Pupil.