Aha, that is the only word I can think right now. I know it seems little out of place. But I am happy after so many years of experience of life I could at least ponder upon this question. This is one question which has bothered the whole humanity right from the beginning since people decided to live in a society or they abided some rule and regulations to live with each other. Each time someone when off the track and was found to do something against the rule book he or she was said to be guilty and the person had to seek forgiveness from so many people. Some would easily forgive and some would make his or her life miserable till death reminding of their guilt.
An important lesson what we the man kind need to learn here is that we do not live for the society. Society is just a setup made by us to fit in a certain lifestyle. Most of the times we also do get to choose the society we live in. This choice not ours because God never asks us where do want to get born my child? He just drops us at the right place to follow our Karma and to discover our path to Moksha. While we discover our path we are usually so confused in the process that we tend to make terrible mistakes and challenge the setup of the society. For which the society punishes the betrayer royally. One does not realize that these mistakes are part of learning. One may not find these learning very useful in day today life but these learning are very much essential to identify our unique path for self elevation.
I have somehow come up with my own policy for this trouble after so many years for feeling guilty for making mistakes and learning new things in process of making mistakes. I realized that whoever I am, I am someone who will continue to make mistakes because I am a human and I am no Godly figure. So will I be always held guilty and would be humiliated by the Society for my mistakes? Lately but I found my answer NO, I cannot be guilty all the time. Knowing for the fact that if I am not getting forgiveness from the society for a mistake I committed then what I can do is that I can move on. But there is something I need to do before I can move on. I need to sit and contemplate the mistake. I need to not judge but find what, how and whom I have harmed. I need to compensate for my mistake to the best. If I have compensated for my mistake to my best and if I can proudly declare about this compensation to my true self then I have full right to forgive myself. And I should not be bothered of what others might think about my mistakes. I would rather move on with life and follow my path and follow my destiny. The only sense of warning I can feel here is one really cannot lie to himself. If I have not compensated enough for my mistakes I cannot lie to myself and move on. Because life would bring me back to same situation and try to teach me the same lesson again.
Wow! It seems LIFE is a great teacher and it does not leave any of his students so easily if they do not learn their lessons properly then LIFE repeats the lessons countless times.
So forgive yourself for all the mistakes you have committed. Just make sure that you have truly compensated for your mistakes and do not lie to yourself or life will make a situation to repeat the same mistake again and again.
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