Forgiveness
Life is filled with a long list of people who cross our paths like firefly’s dancing in the night. Some stay longer than others. Some mark us in positive ways and some, not so much. There is a precious list of those we love, a vastly larger list of those we know, perhaps admire and a hopefully shorter list of those we detest. Bad feelings can stick to us like fungus yet a skill I have been working on for 56 years is how to let those feelings go. Sometimes it can be terribly difficult. Like the scorn I feel for a guy named Barry Wilson who back stabbed me in a previous office interfering with a chance for me to move back and resume a former job after an overseas assignment. His actions caused me to sell my house and relocate my life. Life can at times feel like a catalog of miserable interactions as they tend to stand out much more promi nently than the positive ones. One particular memory reared its head this week when I learned that a previous boss of mine had passed