So I was out of topics to write about...again (big surprise, right?), so I decided to use a random prompt generator. And the title of this post is precisely what the generator came up with. I guess now I actually have to figure out what to write with regards to that...
Why to forgive? What is the sense in that simple action? What does forgiving someone give us? Well, I guess the first question has to be: what does it even mean to forgive? Forgiving is...moving on, accepting what happened (so not forgetting it), but not letting it affect what happens in the future in a negative way. It is a response to the action taken by a person and it is often motivated by the desire to either make things right or have that person play an active role in our lives once more.
We need to forgive in order to make the best of the life that's left to us. If we continue to hold grudges and harbor dissatisfaction with various people in our hearts, we stop ourselves from happiness, we become miserable and resentful of the past. Sometimes not forgiving holds us back so much that we forget about the prospect of a future, give up on the possibility of improvement or any sort of happiness.
What do we gain from forgiveness, then? We gain a bit of liberation from the things that restrain us, we learn to move forward from where we had previously been stuck. In forgiving someone, we show ourselves that we have accepted what happened and are ready to move on, having gained wisdom and experience, but not lost our love of life or anticipation of the future. Forgiveness lets us really continue life instead of waiting for something to come to us. It's all a part of the process of moving forward and learning what we may.
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