How ego can destroy your life

I have a close friend of mine who over 2 years never spoke to his father. They had some differences of opinion. His father was really sad with his son attitude. One day his father approached him, fell on his knees, crying ‘Son, please, speak to me’. My friend ignore that request. His mum said, ‘son, is your dad. Don’t do that to him, please’ After his mum words, he said that he will talk with him the next time. Although, whenever he went home to see his parents, there was those three letters called ‘ego’ that told him ‘you are right. Why you have to talk to him’. After 2 days his mum called, his father passed away. He was a drinker for years and also had Parkinson.

In his funeral, he kneel to the coffin and put his head on it, drop his tears and he said ‘Dad, i am sorry, i shouldn’t have done this to you. I shouldn’t have done this to you’

You never know how long the people are with us. And you cannot take the change to mess up for the most amazing experiences of love just because something happened.

Forgiveness is the foundation of the meaningful, deep, true relationship. To let go if somebody has hurt us and to say sorry if we have hurt somebody, and letting things go is what makes relationships profound, meaningful and deep. When you say you are sorry, it doesn’t mean that you are wrong. It just means that you value the person more than being right.