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To Forgive is Not to be Weak | Meng Cheng | TEDxUCR


today I want to share my research on

forgiveness with you and how forgiveness

can help us become powerful when we are

in a powder situation about four years

ago I wrote a blog about education and

share some of my thoughts on it and it

went viral it has been viewed more than

a hundred and ten thousand time and all

shared more than 27,000 time before I

could celebrate him being famous the

first time ever in my life this turn me

an unexpected situation among my soul

and of comments there’s this one Revere

shouldn’t extreme interesting my writing

and keep talking to me about it I was

more than happy to engage with seeds

conversation at first but later things

get a little bit weird he began to stalk

me on the internet and used all the

method he could find my personal

information my personal blog my Chinese

trade her and my skype number he then

began to stand numerous messages to me

and keeps calling me day after day I try

to be polite at first and answered his

course but sure I realized he was making

my life horrible he spent hours and

hours arguing with me and telling me all

the things I care about was totally

wrong I feel like he was trying to

brainwash me so I got tired of his calls

but he got even more annoyed when I

ignored them then things get really ugly

he began to write paragraphs after

paragraph on all my social media

platform and call me idiot be words

that was really terrible and I don’t

know what you do and he said if I keep

ignoring his calls and messages he would

keep threatening me my friends my family

my classmates my professors all the

people i can imagine who around me man

that was the first time i ever feared

the power of the Internet in a bad way I

feel like Afrojack aids and was so

powerless at that moment I don’t know

what you do and how do you stop him I

hope I could hacked his computer and

make it exploded but it does not seem

realistic right so I can’t my friends

and ask for help among all my friends

most of them offered me the same

solution they said just a pretend he

does not exist he was in China and you

are here in the US just to forgive about

his actions forget about heads and move

on with your life I try to apply my

friend suggestions I ignored his calls I

ignored his message on my skype ID not

all the comments he gave under my blog

post but this approach did not bring me

peace I was living in fear everyday

watch X my met my messages on my phone I

wanna surf the internet I was so scared

that this guy would used another name

another number and keep harassing me

after I blood him I was so scared that

he would carry out all the things he

said he would do and make my friends and

family suffer so thus all my experience

means it’s wrong to forgive

it’s a forgiveness that put me in an

even worse situations and make me

powders yes but also now yes because

with that kind of forgiveness it did not

take me out of that cage but also no

because it’s when you rule needa find

forgiveness it makes you powerless and

if we can look at forgiveness in a

slightly different way it was suddenly

become a powerful tool for you so what

is forgiveness through my research I

have read hundreds of papers in

psychology management marketing and

sociology among all the papers i read

there are tons of definitions of

forgiveness but one definition keep her

rise again and again and it said

forgiveness means let’s around or not

suffer from the wrongdoings and not

making our punishment so if that’s a

case then it may explain why i didn’t

feel better and that definition of the

forgiveness will surely have some

interpretations and implications to some

of my results of my study my research we

start ahead of who and dr. suit find out

that powerless people tend to forgive

more one facing wrongdoings and this

sick less revenge so through my research

we randomly puts participants into two

group and ask them to recall either for

powders or powerful situation and they

write down what was happening to them

then we guided them to read a scenario

we have their teammates did some

wrongdoing towards them and after that

we ask them to tell us how much

forgiveness

they want your shoe to this wrongdoer

studies after studies shoot exactly same

result that powerless people tend to

forgive more than the powerful ones so

there’s all those results taking them

together tell us forgiveness can be

saying as a sign of weakness a sign of

lowes debtors a sign of compromise a

sign of powders and if that’s the case

it will certainly explain why I never

felt better because forgiveness did not

help me to get rid of all those fear and

anger I have but that’s a moment I

realize it’s when you r only define

forgiveness it makes us powers

forgiveness has to be redefined

forgiveness has to be redefined so

forgiveness should be redefined as

forgiving the person for what was

happening in that situation when we

redefine the forgiveness like this we’re

no longer forgiving the action that runs

were carried to us but more likely we

are forgiving what was happened to us

this turns forgiveness in your choice

from being passive where you’re

powerless person left out with the only

option but you forgave interaction when

I finally realized that it suddenly hate

me why those powers participants in my

research responded with higher

agreements on the statement like this

let me read some of them to you although

she hurt me I am putting the hurt aside

so we could resume our relationship I

have released my anger

so I can work on restoring our

relationship to house those powerless

people are forgiving not because they’re

weak but instead they’re empowering

himself after forgiving by forgiving not

what’s action around or was caring but

what happened to them and that’s when

they become powerful and that one’s your

inner fear and anger melt away

forgiveness is not simply forgetting and

it should not be a passive action it

should not be a sign of weakness but

instead a word of power it should be an

active action that we choose as a tour

to help has become powerful in our most

powerless situation so when I reexamined

my situation I realized I did have this

one power over him that L could forgive

him for what happened and by doing that

and free myself from the anger and fear

it had allowed me to escape from the

cage I was seeing and that what made me

powerful to stop the mollys to stop the

anger and fear i ended up responding

wealthiest messager said you know I

don’t want to fight with you anymore I

really don’t but you should be ashamed

of what you did to me you should be

ashamed of all those unreasonable malice

towards me but I forgive you and will

pray for you because this psycho has to

end this pain has to be ended he didn’t

stop her

see me immediately after i sent him this

messenger but his power to make my life

suffer stopped at that moment I become

the powerful one in this situation by

forgiving what happened to me by

escaping from the cage of that end of

fear and anger ed was in that powder

situation that I learned I have this one

power of forgiveness and forgiveness is

not simply let the transgression go but

let yourself go face it head-on accept

it and use the power to stop the malice

stop all the things that happening on

you it may not be easy and you may not

feel ready if you forgive but that’s ok

forgive should not be something like

you’re forcing yourself or others but

keep in mind that’s when you don’t want

your hand on with all those negative

emotions you do have one power of

forgiveness you do have this one option

that can make you powerful event in your

powerless situation it’s not about

letting the transgression go but it’s

about letting yourself go freeing

yourself from the cage of anger and fear

all those negative impacts because after

all you have a general head of you and

you don’t want to keep yourself in that

cage where you were and with all those

anger and resentment you have a life in

front of you and by using the power of

the forgiveness it

help you become powerful a being an otherwise powerless situation thank you

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