An exercise in forgiveness

I was at my wits end...............

I had been dealing with my old landlord who was being really pedantic about the way we left the house, I thought we had left it in good order. having it professionally cleaned.  So I meet her and had an inspection and agreed to do some xtra stuff, all the while resenting the situation and cursing.

Then I got home and sent her an email and basically said to "stick what I had said I would do"...............it was a bit nasty.

Then I felt bad and sick everytime I thought about the situation.  I could feel all this toxic stuff building up inside me, making me tired and basically just feel yuck.   So I put myself through that for 4 days......................

woke up one morning and thought............ummmmm what do I teach........amongst other things FORGIVENESS!

So that was it !!!!

I swallowed my pride and everything else.........

I rang her apologised for my email and said I would do everything we had agreed to!  Her tone of voice was warm and generous.........and I can't believe how much better I felt.

I forgive myself for being a BRAT, forgive her for being difficult, even though it had nothing to do with her, it was all to do with me.....and it was all about me and not the other person!

Now our friendship is still in tact and I am sleeping alot better..

JUST a little forgiveness goes.........................ALONG WAY!