“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” – Carl Jung
“Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.” — Deepak Chopra
I had an invaluable experience last week. Within that experience I learned more than I’ve ever known about:
- Acceptance
- Patience
- Respect
- Trust
- Encouragement
One of my pet peeves is when I fail to follow through on a promise and I don’t own that failure. Doesn’t matter if it’s business or personal, it’s humiliating to feel I’ve let someone down. But I learned a long time ago that I feel worse if I don’t call/write and admit I dropped the ball.
Perhaps you can relate?
So I make a conscious effort to do just that…I call/contact them. I do that because I would want others to show me that same courtesy.
This week on FaceBook I posted a status requesting the following:
“If you are a grown person, simply say to me, ‘Gail, I’m sorry I wasn’t able to follow through on what I promised.’”
It was a generic request. I meant that with that simple statement to me, my capacity to forgive and forget would be just about limitless. I had no particular person in mind in sending that request. To my amazement, four people I know direct messaged me and apologized for some trespass against me that I don’t even remember!
What do I make of this? Seems we are all looking for the same thing from others AND ourselves: Acceptance, Patience, Respect, Trust, Encouragement.
Imagine that…
