Hate is a four letter word, but this word has a big weight on people’s feelings. When someone does something bad to you, and if it is bad enough, you cannot forget them for a long time and sometimes even for the rest of your life. It is up to every person to decide what course of action they are going to take after an incident between them and someone else. The phrase “forgive and forget” is not found in the Bible, but there are many verses instructing us to “forgive one another” (e.g. Matthew 6:14 and Ephesians 4:32).
Sometimes, acting on impulse can have serious consequences and can mark you for the rest of your existence. One example of how life can change in a minute happened to me on November 2015. On that date I was driving north on …show more content…
I proceed to open the door of the car in fear that he will make more damage to the car. Once out he pushed me back, but I kept watching him, because my wife and my son were with me and did not want that the incident escalate more at the time. I argued with him for a few minutes one thing that I asked him was how do you feel if I break your motorcycle in pieces? He replied to me that “he will kill me if that happens”. All my life I deal with bullies and this situation to me was not different, over twenty years in the military and in addition working in a prison I learned how to deal with low lives like this.
I told my son to take a picture of his license plate and let the police deal with him. I guess the guy was scared and took off driving. One thing that he did not know is that in the red light is a camera and those cameras although used to issue tickets they also can do recording. The police came I made a report and I went …show more content…
The District Attorney asked me what type of punishment do I want for this guy, the choices were basically probation or jail? I told the DA do not give him confinement there other punishment worse than that, but I told her that he needs to learn a lesson that “road rage” can get him killed. Another person probably would not react the way that I did, thinking about it in my younger days I would not react the same way either.
I forgive this guy for what he did to me, I do not have any hate in my heart against him. People do stupid things to later regret it, this guy I think learned his lesson. As a punishment he received three years of supervised probation, has to pay all the court costs, have to take anger management classes, he was force to write me a letter that he was sorry, slept one night in jail and pay a bond, and last he cannot have any contact with me at all.
Throughout my life I learned many lessons some of them observing other people making mistakes, others on my own. One thing that I always advocate is to forget what others do to you after all we are only
Sometimes, acting on impulse can have serious consequences and can mark you for the rest of your existence. One example of how life can change in a minute happened to me on November 2015. On that date I was driving north on …show more content…
I proceed to open the door of the car in fear that he will make more damage to the car. Once out he pushed me back, but I kept watching him, because my wife and my son were with me and did not want that the incident escalate more at the time. I argued with him for a few minutes one thing that I asked him was how do you feel if I break your motorcycle in pieces? He replied to me that “he will kill me if that happens”. All my life I deal with bullies and this situation to me was not different, over twenty years in the military and in addition working in a prison I learned how to deal with low lives like this.
I told my son to take a picture of his license plate and let the police deal with him. I guess the guy was scared and took off driving. One thing that he did not know is that in the red light is a camera and those cameras although used to issue tickets they also can do recording. The police came I made a report and I went …show more content…
The District Attorney asked me what type of punishment do I want for this guy, the choices were basically probation or jail? I told the DA do not give him confinement there other punishment worse than that, but I told her that he needs to learn a lesson that “road rage” can get him killed. Another person probably would not react the way that I did, thinking about it in my younger days I would not react the same way either.
I forgive this guy for what he did to me, I do not have any hate in my heart against him. People do stupid things to later regret it, this guy I think learned his lesson. As a punishment he received three years of supervised probation, has to pay all the court costs, have to take anger management classes, he was force to write me a letter that he was sorry, slept one night in jail and pay a bond, and last he cannot have any contact with me at all.
Throughout my life I learned many lessons some of them observing other people making mistakes, others on my own. One thing that I always advocate is to forget what others do to you after all we are only