Hi Painters. I heard this story from my teacher and it had a good lesson so I decided to make a blog about it. Enjoy!
When I was nine years old, my mom had a statue of a lady that was one of her most prized posesions. I was sitting in beside my mom's statue, and looking at it. Beside the statue was a bottle of nail polish. I though "It would be a great idea to paint her toenails!". So I grabbed the nail polish and painted the statue's toes. I thought it looked so pretty, I also thought my mom would love it.
When my mom got home from work, she was furious that I painted her prized statue's toenails. I felt so terrible.
Then next day, I thought I could take off the nail polish with nail polish remover. And what does nail polish remover do? It removes. I tried so hard to get the nail polish off. When I stopped, I noticed I had removed the toes completely on the statue. I was so so scared.
When my mother finally got home, she was even more devastated. She was so mad...I felt so guilty.
I never forgave myself for ruining my mother's statue. I kept thinking about it for all my teenage years and I wanted to make my mom forgive me. Whenever I went on vacation, I looked in all the shops for a statue like hers. I never could find the right one. Then finally, I was on a cruise, and where we stopped I looked in all the shops for the right one. I was so excited when I saw the perfect statue. It looked exactly like my mom's statue, but it was 30lbs heavier. I had to have it. My friends and I had to carry this statue all day and then back onto the cruise ship. I didn't really care because I knew it would make my mom forgive me.
When I got home from my trip, I wrapped the statue up and I waited to until the next time I saw her to give it to her. The next time I saw her, I just gave it to her, with a smile on my face. She opened it and she was so happy. I asked if she would forgive me, and she said she forgave me years ago. All these years I have been worried about getting forgiveness from my mom when I just needed forgiveness from myself.
Who hasn't made a mistake before? Who hasn't done something to hurt someone else? Everyone has. You need to forgive yourself even if the other side doesn't. If you don't forgive yourself, that weight will be waying you down until you do. The moral of the story is that you should always forgive yourself.
By smartiesrox135
