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Why do people forgive?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Forgiveness involves willingness to look beyond the problem and see what may lie past it. It involves understanding and accepting our part in the situation, and the ability to empathize, to a degree, with the person being forgiven. It is also, to a great degree, learned behavior. A child who is brought up in a gentle, forgiving atmosphere that fosters understanding will be able to practice forgiveness more readily that one that had the example of emotionally abusive, blaming parents who cherish grudges and feuds.

Resentment -- the opposite of forgiveness -- is like drinking poison and then waiting for the other person to die. Forgiveness is for you, not the other party. It allows you to move beyond that nasty feeling in your gut and live freely.

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People forgive because we are humans and we make mistakes. We are not perfect.

If you accidentally spilled milk on the brand new rug, wouldn't you wish to be forgiven? It wouldn't be a happy ending knowing that because of the accident you would be forever kept in jail. That is why people forgive.

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