The Value of a Grudge
Things happen from
time to time to cause one to reflect on the meaning or even the value of
certain things in life. Well, grudges – everybody’s got at least one against
someone or some thing. So I got to wondering what the value of a grudge is. And
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s worth absolutely nothing – zero – zip.
Now why didn’t I figure that out long ago? I’da saved myself a whole lot of
time and trouble carryin’ all my grudges around.
Well you run into
somebody who’s done you wrong, for example, knowingly or otherwise. You pass
the time of day, nice and polite and then part company. In the wake of his exit
trail you mutter quietly (so he won’t hear you), Jeez I hate that rotten
##%%&**! So now you’re grousin’ and grumblin’ about that rotten S.O.B. who
done you wrong a while ago (you don’t even remember the when or the what of
it).
The thing is,
you’ve gone and got yourself all riled up over something you don’t even
remember, and now you are in a bitchy mood (again). Spoils your whole otherwise
perfect day. It seems a shame, the ways we have of ruining our own
dispositions. It seems that instead of punishing someone else with our distain,
we punish ourselves with it.
That’s stupid.
That’s just plain stupid. If you’ve been around the block a few times with your
eyes open you’ll find that if somebody does you dirt, it usually comes back on
them – all by itself. You don’t have to lift a finger. You can just sit there
and gloat and get your enjoyment that way without carrying the weight of the
grudge around to weigh you down. Now that’s a whole lot easier than carryin’
the weight of all your different grudges around, keeping track of which is
which, and it’s a whole lot more enjoyable too.
In the end,
whatever you think of someone else or their activities don’t matter a rip
anyway. After all, whatever they did to you is past, and you’re still here. The
only thing you got out of the whole business is to get a bent back from the
weight of all them grudges you been carryin around all this time.
As I said; that’s
just plain stupid. At least that’s how it seems to me from up here on the top
shelf.
Just sayin.
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