Forgiveness

Forgiveness is one of the hardest things to master, from both sides, whether someone did you wrong or you did someone else wrong, it’s a challenge to forgive either way. With both ways I’ve learned that analyzing your behavior and forgiving yourself is always the first step. When we do others wrong we have to take the time to figure out what allowed us to do someone else wrong in the first place before we can apologize for behavior that we don’t even understand ourselves. If you apologize without understanding what you’ve done wrong you can sever relationships with people in the long run due to a small misunderstanding. When someone does us wrong we have to look at ourselves as well and take the time to understand why we felt disrespected or why we allowed someone’s actions to move us. Forgiving yourself for others actions towards you is important, if you don’t evaluate and forgive yourself it leads to grudges, insecurities, and feelings of unworthiness. We can’t allow the actions of others to become us, nor can we allow our past actions to haunt us in our present lives. There is definitely more to forgiveness but I feel as though evaluating yourself and your actions should ALWAYS come first and any decisions you make after should be based off of your evaluations. Forgiveness is not easy but it is one of the most important things to learn in life, forgiveness teaches us so much about ourselves and the type of people we want around us if done right.