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Fetishizing Forgiveness
Written by: Brandy Collins
Forgiveness is overrated. I don’t always want to make a conscious decision to forgive someone so that I can heal. Nope. Do you know how many times we tell people that we should forgive and forget it? Neither do I. Without forgiveness we are hurting ourselves? Sure, fine, whatever. I don't want to forgive right now though.
Have we forgotten that forgiveness isn’t an absolution for wrong doing? It's a space for allowing us to move past something and move forward toward something else. It doesn't mean that someone who said they’re sorry actually means it either. If they say it at all.
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Fetishizing Forgiveness CONT'D
Can we have to stop admonishing people for having their indignation? It's theirs just like anger as well as the ability to forgive. It’s not irrational. It's rooted in an emotion of being neglected, irritated, forgotten or dismissed. We have become so focused on being healing that maybe we have forgotten the reason why we are healing. Being so committed to making it to the scabs of the wound, could mean forgetting to treat the wound.
Forgiveness should be honored and earned more frequently. Someone should have to earn your trust to be allowed in your spaces. “I don’t have to forgive you” is a real feeling and we should honor that as much as we do anything else. It serves as a reminder that we have the ability to not forgive someone and that forgiveness shouldn’t be taken for granted.
Because, then you will finally stop forgiving and start doing something different. Then and only then, should you forgive.