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It's almost Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement, where we beg G0d to forgive us for our sins. But G0d can only forgive our sins against him; he can not forgive sins sinned against other people. Only the person you wronged can do that.
With that in mind, I ran off to shul for Mincha. A few minutes after I got there, my concentration in prayer was shattered when who should walk in but the husband of the woman who reneged on that photo job and then went batshit on me last Wednesday - which has proven to just be the first of many many many bad things that have been dumped on me since then, especially this week.
It took a lot of courage (and some swallowing of anger) for me to go up to him afterward and ask him to ask his wife for forgiveness for whatever it was that I might have somehow done to make her so upset.
And I want to do the same thing here - I want to ask everyone out there who reads this - from the real life friends to the internet strangers - for forgiveness, for everything and everything. Not just if I had intentionally or thoughtlessly harmed you - but if I've annoyed you; if I've posted something that made you upset, or made some comment that might have hurt your feelings.
Even for the things that were not my fault, things akin to my phone encounter on Wednesday, but where I still did something that made someone unhappy - and even beyond that, for times when it was justified, when I had to stand up for myself, or stop someone from doing something wrong - but, by consequence or necessity, I hurt someone - I beg forgiveness for that too.
With that in mind, I ran off to shul for Mincha. A few minutes after I got there, my concentration in prayer was shattered when who should walk in but the husband of the woman who reneged on that photo job and then went batshit on me last Wednesday - which has proven to just be the first of many many many bad things that have been dumped on me since then, especially this week.
It took a lot of courage (and some swallowing of anger) for me to go up to him afterward and ask him to ask his wife for forgiveness for whatever it was that I might have somehow done to make her so upset.
And I want to do the same thing here - I want to ask everyone out there who reads this - from the real life friends to the internet strangers - for forgiveness, for everything and everything. Not just if I had intentionally or thoughtlessly harmed you - but if I've annoyed you; if I've posted something that made you upset, or made some comment that might have hurt your feelings.
Even for the things that were not my fault, things akin to my phone encounter on Wednesday, but where I still did something that made someone unhappy - and even beyond that, for times when it was justified, when I had to stand up for myself, or stop someone from doing something wrong - but, by consequence or necessity, I hurt someone - I beg forgiveness for that too.