Im Hotep Nubian People,

I'm tired of hearing all of this forgiveness talk. I'm sick of the worn out cliche that says if you do not forgive a person, you are giving thempower over you. I've found in my life that that is just not the way it works.

The Wolof have a saying that goes, "God will not destroy a people whom one hates." This is the reality of the situation. As long as we hold hatred in our hearts towards any person, God leaves them to be a temptation for us. Anger is an inroad for much of thecorrosive energy that causes pain in our lives. If you want to see the people who have done you wrong suffer, then purge your heart of the hate. Know that what they did to you was and always will be wrong, but know also that you have a choice. You can feed the evil that was done to you with your own precious energy, walking around spitting and cursing every time you think of what they did. Or you can turn your face towards the future. Concentrate on making your life better and reaching the goals that you have which have nothing to do with that individual. One day, maybe a year later or even ten years later, you will be in conversation with a mutual friend or relative and they will tell you that the person was walking down the street one day and a bus ran them over. Then when the paramedics tried to come and jumpstart their heart, a bolt of lightning hit the machine and it fried their skin off. Now you have gone on with your life, but the person who wronged you will look like Freddy Kruger and wear diapers for the rest of their life. And you will have your revenge without having dirtied your hands or your heart.

Mer en Sekhmet