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Forgiveness - a way to happiness

Forgiveness - a way to happiness Letting go of something painful sometimes become very difficult and seems almost impossible to let go. Actually, why should one let go of whatever happened, some situation, an argument, an unsuccessful deal, a failure? There is a very popular story, once the teacher asked the students (teacher holding a half-filled glass of water), what is the weight of this glass, a guess? So the students replied with different answers like 200 grams or 300 grams or 100 grams etc. So the teacher replied, the weight of the glass depends on how long I hold it, after 15 minutes, my hand may ache after 30 minutes, more painful, after an hour, intolerable pain and so. What if I hold it for a day or for a week, well I am sure, you get the idea. Are we not doing the same thing with ourselves, holding things for weeks, months, years. If our hand can become paralyzed, wouldn't we become paralyzed emotionally and mentally and also burning ourselves from inside. It i...