Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the act of concluding resentment, or ill feelings that came about toward a person because of a perceived offense on their part. It is an important human virtue in many ways and context, both personal and interpersonal. We witness and in most cases practice forgiveness daily. We immediately mourn its abscess when it is not extended to us and later regret not extending it if at the time of the offence we are to hot headed to give it. In many cases it is the life blood of any relationship. It also has a way of making life meaningful, and is involved in many life lessons. It is a way of going back on words you spoke and now regret, even forgiveness to yourself is important every day, because even you can wrong yourself sometimes.

To me, forgiveness is the mother of all life lessons. Without it, learning, especially about social situations would not be impossible, but substantially harder in comparison to the way things are with forgiveness. Imagine you’re four years old, it’s your first day of preschool and you’re lined up with your peers to get a snack. You’re hungry so naturally you skip to the head of the line. You don’t know any better, but the other kids do. But, all they do is simply push you back to the very end of the line and all you can think is that they’re being unforgivably cruel. In this instance, all that happening is that a group of children, rather than being friendly and understanding enough to explain such a simply grace as waiting in line, they instead let you fall back and feel victimized and a little angry. You don’t know what you did and so you continue to try and get food in the same way, nobody ever really correcting you, everyone automatically poised just to push you back. This keeps going till you are old enough to understand. They never forgive and even when you’re in high school the second you hit the cafeteria everyone just gets ready to push you back even though you’ve done nothing wrong for years....