Questioner 1: Why can’t we forgive some people, even though I know that thinking about them, I’ll hurt only myself? How to forgive and forget them, so that it will bring me peace?
Acharya Prashant: You see, you’ve checked into a hotel, the experience there is not good enough, right? Now two scenarios: First – In a fit, in a sway of rage, you check out of the hotel at midnight and find yourself on the road, on the pavement; and it's cold, it’s January. Second scenario – You check out of an inferior hotel and check in to a superior hotel, a wonderful one. When are you going to miss the bad hotel?
Questioner 1: In the first scenario, when I don’t get something good in life.
Acharya Prashant: That’s what. Life doesn’t afford vacuums. It cannot by its very definition because we’ve to be better. That’s the reason we keep looking for something to relate to, something to identify with, something to do, something to call our own, something to associate our name with because that’s the nature of human consciousness. We’re born to be better.
And there’s only one way to be better - associate yourself progressively with better people, better thoughts, better causes, better places, better work. So life keeps wanting betterment. Now incidentally, it may happen, happens with all of us, that you may associate yourself with something unworthy, relatively unworthy, happens with all of us, because there’s an error of judgment. And we ourselves are not so worthy, that we make the right decisions every time.
