What's your Personal Mantra?

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Have you not summed up my point for me by suggesting I have been drinking? If a suspected tee totaler had posted the same topic you would have reacted differently. Life is all about perception.
 
I have nothing to declare.

(Which reminds me of cartoon I saw years ago, about a chap with a huge suitcase, standing in front of a mirror, practising: "I have nothing to declare. I have nothing to declare. I have nothing to... " )
 
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Trust no-one, believe nothing, forgive anything ... but never forget.

Cynical, I know, but it's only what those around me have taught me - and there are qualifying factors after each point which redeems the bleakness, a bit.
 
I think forgiveness is vastly overrated. Nothing like a bit of retribution, Divine or otherwise. That's what 'justice' is really about. As for forgetting - if it's bad enough, you aren't going to forget it, anyway. Trust no-one? Depends on what you're trusting someone with. If I trust X with a secret but know they're a gossip, more fool me. If I trust Y with my money and they lose it through no fault of their own, then it doesn't point to them being untrustworthy. Dim, misguided, inept, perhaps, and probably not to be trusted with any future dough. But I'd never say trust no-one, because that means even the person saying it is untrustworthy.
 
krizon said:
I think forgiveness is vastly overrated. Nothing like a bit of retribution, Divine or otherwise. That's what 'justice' is really about. As for forgetting - if it's bad enough, you aren't going to forget it, anyway. .
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I like the word retribution and see your point but retribution in my eyes could be viewed as abuse in the eyes of others. Again it's all about perception.
 
Forgiveness for me is the easier option. I don't hold grudges easily and prefer to shake them off. Deeper hurts take time to forgive but, in my case need to be because the emotional upset makes me physically ill.

Paying someone back usually bounces back at me, so I prefer to let nature take its course. It's quite odd how often I am around when someone who has harmed me ends up paying for it - even if it is years down the line and I have got over it.

Only once have I really gone to war on someone, but the toll on my health has been phenomenal - although winning recently has made me feel a lot better. :D
 
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