“Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
As we finish up the school year and you get ready for next year, I was just thinking that one of the best things each of us can do to improve next year is to let go of any old grudges. To forgive is truly divine and many of us believe (like me) that it takes Divine Intervention to help us do it and yet, forgiving and letting go of grudges is a serum for your health.
As you consider your New Year’s resolutions and work to make your classroom a better place for students, perhaps consider if old grudges need to be left behind with the old year. This is something I’m working on in my own life and I thought it might help some of you.
Carrying a grudge is like weighting down your backpack and trying to climb Mt. Everest without ropes — as a teacher, we just don’t have the extra energy to carry all that weight.
This new year, give yourself (and others) the gift that keeps on giving good things: let go of old grudges and climb to new heights in your teaching and in your life.
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