wanderingintofocus

Content Advisory: This piece does NOT discuss religious themes. _ forgive /fəˈɡɪv/ verb  stop feeling angry or resentful towards (someone) for an offence, flaw, or mistake. _ We all know people whom we hate - and people whom we have offended (if you don't know of any such people, then either you're indeed truly benevolent, or simply, YTA but haven't thought hard enough/are too dense to figure). Some of these people, we regret having ever offended or crossed the line with, but the relationship at present seems beyond repair. Similarly, some of these people regret having ever offended or crossed the line with us, but the relationship at present seems to them to be beyond repair. The only way for a broken interpersonal relationship to be repaired is for both parties to, first and foremost, be willing to mend relations. Only then can resolution and forgiveness be of any value in consideration to this discussion. In modern casual lexicon, the meaning of forgiveness seems to have...

You're already perfect, yet you can always be better. _ improvement /ɪmˈpruːvm(ə)nt/ noun an example or action of of improving or being improved; a thing that makes something better or is better than something else _ The ultimate goal of self-improvement is to reach the state or point where you no longer feel the persistent need to improve yourself. Self-improvement, therefore, seems to be self-defeating. The point of improving yourself is to make yourself better than you were before, or in some cases, better than someone else. However, implicit to improving yourself is actually the assumption that there something inherently wrong with you and the way that you're living right now.  Thus, obsessively indulging in self-help material and incessantly chasing self-improvement might just feed the feeling of inadequacy; if we keep chasing improvement, we sometimes overlook the progress that we have made.