Often times, in life we are all contesting against ourselves - when we make choices and when choices break or make us.
At such difficult times, there is nothing else that can ever make a person feel better within, than an honest-to-God sense of realization that ‘I did make a mistake’. And that ’ I need to correct it now’.
Sometimes, mistakes cannot be corrected, yet still their impact can be acknowledged by the person who made the mistake/s and caused harm and hurt to another person.
Religion also encourages the ability to express sorry with an understanding that the wrong doing is realized as a wrong doing and the wrong doer is embarrassed for having done that.
Without philosophizing for the only-practical-minds, it still holds that the power of realization is healthy and beneficial, because its intent is to provide comfort to a disturbed mind; be it that of the one who is hurt due to a mistake of someone or of the one who caused the mistake. A greater gain is obtained when bad intentions are also acknowledged. Not everyone can live up to this ideal.
Only those people know its value, who mean to correct their flaws and are not terribly caught in their egos. There is a time limit for that realization to have its positive impact.
On earth, taking the ownership of one’s own mistakes and diligently making the effort to correct them with a clear heart and mind, is the best way one can gather the evidence to bring forth to Almighty, when the ultimate accountaibility will be carried out.
Any thoughts on this?
Dushwari