The daily writing prompt asks today – Are you holding a grudge? About?
Another repeat question that I answered in a post last year called NOPE. And most of that is still accurate.
I won’t get into politics because I’m developing a serious one there.
In some ways I have a grudge against myself. I feel I’ve wasted some opportunities. I haven’t made the best use of time. I could have done more with the resources I’ve had. And while I look forward and try to change these things, it is something that eats at me.
Are you holding a grudge? About? – Interesting question by the daily writing prompt.
To start with I had to Google grudge because I didn’t think what I had was a grudge but wanted to make sure. Google says the noun – “a persistent feeling of ill will or resentment resulting from a past insult or injury.”
There it is. The difference in what I feel versus a grudge. The word “persistent”. I do have feelings of ill will or resentment resulting from past experiences but they aren’t persistent. They enter into my train of thought only when recalling certain times or experiences. But even that resentment has mellowed realizing they were just poor leaders on power trips who didn’t know their asses from a hole in the ground. Or liars who got caught and then tried to lie their way out of it again.
And most of the time we’re talking about other good times and people when someone might mention a former nemesis.
Grudge means spending time in anger and I’m trying to avoid wasting time on that now. Then again there is a certain individual who I oppose being allowed on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. But hopefully I can let go of that grudge after November because he will never enter there again on his own accord.
