Important Lessons

What was the most important lesson you learned about yourself in 2011? Was it a sudden epiphany or a gradual realisation?

The most important lesson for me was that I CAN forgive.  For so long I have understood forgiveness, I have wanted to feel it in my heart, but it just never made that journey down from my head and in to my heart.  This year it happened and old wounds I had all but given up on have begun to heal.  Its a cliche, but true, time does heal, it just takes some of us a lot longer than others.  Forgiveness is a kind of release, it allows those old holding patterns to let go and for new energy to fill those spaces, I am not sorry it took so long, everything happens when it is supposed to.