Forgiving

“Forgive and forget” is an old expression that has been around for so many years now. Yes, we may forgive people who have done wrong against us but the sad part is many of us don’t actually have the ability to forget. Let me quote this saying “Fool me ones, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Well apparently, we live on this motto more than the first one. Many of us are slow to forgive and almost never forget the bad things done to us or the person behind.

Most of us are fragile when it comes to our feelings. Sad truth is, when we got hurt we don’t actually tell the person that hurts us. There is no way that the person can fix the problem if he or she doesn’t know that we are angry with him or her. When we are offended, we need or must not talk to anyone other than the one’s whom we are offended. We don’t have to seek advices to others nor share our anger to anyone not even to our teacher, pastor, parents etc. Instead we go straight to the person in attempt to fix the misunderstanding. Basically the situation will be over and the good thing is that no other people were involved. Let’s think of this - if we handle such things incorrectly two, three or more people will be tied up in it and things will get worst.

Well on the other hand, if that person rejects us then, that’s the time we seek council and witnesses. After we tried to make things right, we can go to our parents, teacher, pastor to seek advice or assistance with a goal to solve the problem not to let the person we got offended with feel bad for hurting us or our feelings.

We can never move on to a happy, calm and worry free life unless we have a clear conscience. Free from anger and troubles by then we’ll be living a peaceful life.