This is infants on Thrones, the philosophies of men,

mingled with humans.

We are the core.

Yeah, Yay! Welcome back to another episode of Infants on Thrones. My name is Tom Perry.

In this episode will be a part one of two on the topic of Grudges.

And so yeah, let's talk about grudges, shall we? I've lived my entire life thinking

that holding a grudge was detrimental to my own well-being. And I know and acknowledge that the basis of this thinking

stemmed from my religious upbringing, but I have to also mention that there's a

strong societal push that holding a

grudge is universally looked on as bad. I still lean in that direction of

thinking that holding a grudge is bad because I've seen

an experienced firsthand some of the negative consequences of holding a grudge.

But in the last few years I have softened my approach to holding

grudges and I slowly began looking at grudges in a completely different way.

Start asking myself questions like, why is it that I hold

grudges? Why do we as human beings hold grudges? What's going on in the mind of the grudge holder? What's what's going on in the mind of the grad holder? What started at all? How do they let it go?

And I began to closely look at the causes and intentions and realize that, you know, maybe holding a grudge really isn't all

that bad. In fact, it appeared to me that holding a grudge would seem to stem from some internal, some

instinctual self-protective part of us, somewhere deep down, possibly even unconscious.

Most grudges are a reaction to not allow ourselves to get hurt by that same person again. So yeah, we decide to separate

to remove ourselves from that situation or that person. And looking at it that way

that doesn't seem all that bad not at all

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