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forgiven her father, but is struggling to forgive another key character in her story? Sometimes, the true recipient of our ire misses the aggressor. Like a boomerang, it comes back towards us at rapid speed. Near the end of his life, Jobs’ apologizes. Lisa responds by seemingly granting him a free pass, attributing his inattentiveness to his packed schedule. As I read these words, I wondered if something else may be at play. Is it possible that she had forgiven her father because she had Samuel Moore-Sobel is a freelance yet to forgive herself? writer. He is currently working on I write this as someone with a a memoir and publishes a blog tendency to readily forgive while which can be found by visiting silently internalizing the blame. www.holdingontohopetoday.com Working through the pain inflicted Follow him on both Facebook and upon me by others, all while Twitter. quietly wondering if my actions were the reason behind the hurt experienced. Perhaps I wasn’t good How easy it is to forgive? enough, or did something to provoke the other party. I have Are there certain circumstances under which it becomes easier to been told I am a forgiving person, yet I wonder if I really am. Does forgive someone for the wrongs internalizing pain and blaming they have committed? myself for the wrongs committed by others count as being truly Lisa Brennan-Jobs - the once estranged daughter of Steve Jobs forgiving? - is out with a new book entitled Small Fry. Her work confronts the I may be projecting far too much upon Brennan-Jobs, my idea of forgiveness in a nuanced conclusions impossible to prove way. Many are familiar with the from afar. Yet it makes me wonder sequence of events surrounding if perhaps human nature is to focus the fraught relationship between Jobs and his eldest daughter. Upon on the wrong part of this story. It might be appropriate to consider her birth, he repeatedly denied whether or not we are rushing Jobs paternity. As a co-founder of the company we all know as Apple, he to reach a state of acceptance. For forgiveness cannot be achieved in a possessed plenty of money to single day. Rather than provide. Despite his wealth, he characterizing forgiveness as a notoriously refused to pay child support, only doing so after being destination to be reached, perhaps it is more helpful to view this forced by a court of law. transformative act as a journey measured in small steps. Striving A spate of articles have been released over the last few weeks, towards this elusive goal more exploring the relationship between closely resembles a marathon than the two. One is immediately struck a sprint. by the wrongs this brilliant and Jobs’ book may symbolize a step creative man inflicted upon his on the road to reaching a place in daughter. He lies and says that which she can truly extend when he created and named the forgiveness towards the man she Apple computer Lisa, it was once called father. Until then, we certainly not in honor of his can enjoy her work for what it is - a daughter. Even after a sort-of blazingly honest portrayal of a reconciliation occurs during her teenage years, stories from the past daughter’s relationship with a certainly indicate she remained a complicated man. A man who, second-class citizen in the family despite his brilliance, apparently proved unwilling or unable to show Jobs formed with his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs. Even on his his daughter unconditional love for most of his life. Circumstances death-bed, he tells Lisa she seemingly calling for a stroke of “smells like a toilet.” Making us empathy for the battle Brennanwonder if an unwritten prerequisite for achieving greatness is Jobs has waged. In all this talk of forgiveness, it is easy to ignore the a penchant for displaying an pain inflicted upon this innocent attitude of cold indifference. child. The question, it seems to me, Somehow, Brennan-Jobs sees this is not whether she has forgiven; but differently. Her recent comments rather, how has she worked through to the press suggest she was trying the pain of the past to build a thriving life in the present? If these to portray her father as a full person, capable of both inflicting lessons are revealed in this newly released tale, such treasures can be searing pain while at the same gleaned by all readers. After all, time communicating love. Some aren’t most of us attempting to have called into question the overcome the past in order to truthfulness of her claimed forgiveness. If such a state fails to experience great joy in the present? be conveyed in her work, does this Samuel Moore-Sobel is a freelance somehow invalidate the truth writer. To read more of his work, behind such a claim? Or is it visit possible that she really has www.holdingontohopetoday.com
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