I had a bit of an awakening by realizing the greatest awakening a person can have is by admitting they're wrong or saying "I'm sorry."
There's a beautiful lesson i've learned from the Holy Qur'an:
"I swear by this city, Makkah - And you, [O Muhammad], are free of restriction in this city - And [by] the father and that which was born [of him], We have certainly created man into hardship. Does he think that never will anyone overcome him? He says, "I have spent wealth in abundance." Does he think that no one has seen him? Have We not made for him two eyes? And a tongue and two lips? And have shown him the two ways? But he has not broken through the difficult pass. And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass? It is the freeing of a slave Or feeding on a day of severe hunger An orphan of near relationship. Or a needy person in misery And then being among those who believed and advised one another to patience and advised one another to compassion. Those are the companions of the right. But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left. Over them will be fire closed in" --- The Holy Qur'an Surah al-Balad
Anything that goes against our 2nd nature [or our egos] can lead us towards spiritual fulfillment and awakening. Anything. Admitting your wrong and saying sorry are such things, they go against our second nature/our egos. Anything worthwhile is seemingly difficult to do because of the pull of our egos against us [like admitting you wrongs and apologizing], while anything that fulfills our egos is seemingly an easier option because it serves our lowly, base ego.
Take this hypothetical scenario for example --- Imagine you have to do a lengthy college project, you are sitting in the comfort of your home and your favorite tv show is currently on. Tell me something, what would you naturally incline to do? Watch your favorite tv show with your favorite snacks, or complete the strenuous project? Naturally, you'd be more incline to just sit back, relax, watch tv while having your snacks. This is because this satisfy your ego and it's an easier choice. You'd most likely put off the college project in preference to just relaxing in front of tv. However, the college project is more beneficial in the long run and leads towards your growth and progress. This is because this is useful to your spiritual and personal advancement and as such, is seemingly difficult because it starves your ego.
Whenever you are faced with multiple options, the relatively more difficult option is usually more beneficial in the long run. After all, take an upward sloping, ascending road is more strenuous on us as compared to taking downward sloping road. But guess what? Taking the upward sloping, ascending road is what takes us higher towards upwards ascension to greater levels, while downward sloping road leads to downward descend, it leads to devolution. As responsible individual, we should always take the comparatively harder option that'll leads us ascend us higher to greater evolutionary levels while at the same time, we should always positively refuse to take the comparatively easier options that'll lead to our spiritual, physical and other devolution and destruction.
Think about it this way --- What is more difficult, love or hate? Of course love is more difficult, and it takes us on higher level, while hate is easier to do so as we are nothing but advance homosapiens with reptilian mind, it's following your evolutionary programming. What is more difficult, forgiveness or retribution? Again, forgiveness is more difficult but leads to growth and progress, while retribution is easier option that breed destruction of individual and society in general. What is more difficult, being selfless or selfish? Of course, selflessness is more difficult but causes our spiritual growth, while selfishness leads us towards downward descend to our egos slavery. Being loyal is more difficult than being disloyalSimilarly staying patient in crisis and hard times is more difficult thing to do as compared to becoming impatient. And so on
I can talk about this in more detail but the post has already become to lengthy.
