I carry other grudges around with me, but these are smaller. They fit neatly into my back pocket and the inventory tends to ebb and recede. These grudges exist on a rotating basis and have worn themselves into the flexible pattern of my day to day life. I like to keep them handy so that I may pull them out, like so many go into jail free cards, as I go through my day to day endeavours. These back pocket grudges are something I use regularly, to ward off the grudged.
A grudge is little more than unresolved anger that is held onto for the purpose of expressing our own anger at the fact that we feel we have not received proper redress for a perceived offense.
Not everything is forgivable, or rather the bestowing of forgiveness in extreme cases is a deeply personal choice. Some grudges are fully justified, but most aren't.
As you read this, chances are that you are thinking about some petty stupid grudge of your own. Don't hang onto this, resolve it. The fact about carrying grudges is that they extract a cost to yourself.
I should go now, because I just realized that I need to email a long lost friend. Blogger, heal thyself.
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