Day 155: Forgive and forget.

A collection of words and phrases that I have unfortunately received throughout my lifetime.

 

They say "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me".

I don't agree. Words hurt. You may feel feel physical pain, but you'll heal and you may or may not feel the intensity of that pain in the future. But as for words, they'll always be there to haunt you, at the back of your lexical bank (i.e. language part of your brain), and you'll feel and remember the humiliation all over again, when that someone said that something to you, a long long long time ago.

 

It's hard to forgive. And hard to forget. But if you forgive, you'll soon forget. You'll forget why you had to forgive them in the first place. Geddit?

 

I guess I've forgiven the many people who said the things as shown above. But I'm working on the forgetting part. But in the mean time, the collection above just keeps growing and growing.

 

[I'm sure there's like billions more insults, criticisms and snide remarks, but I've forgotten them. A good thing, no?]

Done