Positive Aids to Peace of Mind - 3

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Forget and Forgive

 

Do not develop ill-feeling inside your heart for the man who has

insulted you or injured you. This is worse than open anger. This is

mental cancer. Do not nourish grievances. Forget and forgive. This is

not just an idealistic maxim. This is the only way to retain your

peace. The habit of nurturing grievances is highly injurious to one’s

own self. You will lose sleep. You will poison your blood. You will

develop blood pressure and neurasthenia. After all, the injury or

insult was done to you once. Now it is past. It is all over. It is

spilt milk. Why do you want to perpetuate the misery of that injury

or insult by constantly remembering it? Why do you want to feed the

dying embers of hatred and ill-will? Is it not high foolishness? The

span of human life is so short that you cannot afford to waste time

and life in such trifles. Get over the bad habit. The best way to do

so is to keep yourself ever busy in any work which absorbs your

interest. You can gain peace of mind if you actively follow a calling

or profession, or even hobby, which holds your interest. You will

then have a sense of fulfilment, of achievement. Remember the

proverb: Man does not live by bread alone. If you can afford it, and

if you value peace of mind more than money, you would even do well to

take to a calling or job which you like but which is monetarily less

rewarding than one which you dislike all the time but monetarily more

rewarding.