Holding a grudge comes from a place of pain. I didn’t want to be hurt so I changed it to anger. My thought process was – “Being in pain is a weakness and the world will exploit it”. So I hid my pain behind a mask of arrogance and hate.

But as you get older you realize that holding onto that anger was keeping the pain alive. Now I think are the people who I want to hold a grudge against even worth it. In all the cases I have noticed that it isn’t. Letting go of the grudge, the feelings that it entailed was freeing. It gave a sort of peace to understand that sometimes the evil win but I do not need to become evil to win.

Today, without a doubt I can say holding a grudge is absolutely useless. The person who hurts you moves on and you end up holding the baggage of that hurt.

I follow the policy of “Live and Let Live”. As long as they don’t come for me I will not cross paths with them. I wish them the best in whichever path they choose. I do not understand their approach to life but I am not Jesus I don’t know what baggage they carry and what made them the way they are.

I always remember:

“Just because you are right doesn’t mean that I am wrong.”