*"Forgiveness Is A Powerful Weapon. Equip Yourself With It"

It takes a strong person to say they're sorry, and an even stronger person to forgive.

When the person we love breaks our hearts, we feel deeply wounded. Every time our wound hurts, we think of them, and the revival of memories makes it harder to forgive and move on. Wounds inflicted on us, especially by the people we value the most, never heal. With time, our mind, protecting its sanity, just covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is just remembering the hurt without anger.

Although heartbreak may bring a feeling of resentment, we don't really need to turn it into misery for ourselves. Hurts can never be forgotten, nor can all hurt be forgiven, but they should not make us fall prey to depression or self-damage. But one need not take revenge for that. Being spiteful is a sign of weakness. Anger kept in the heart and brooding on it each time is equivalent to the pyre fire that burns the dead silently. It affects us not only mentally but physically as well, as both are interrelated. Keeping bitterness and hatred keeps your free, peaceful self in confinement, just like a prison.

Most of the time, people who do you wrong never apologize. It may be either that they are yet to realize the wrong they have done or are too ashamed to come forth and own up. Forgiving them in silence and never speaking to them again is another level of self-respect. Without forgiveness, life is governed by a vicious cycle of resentment and retaliation. We all make mistakes. We all should realize that if you can't forgive others, don't expect others to forgive you. Sincere forgiveness is not coloured with expectations that the other person apologizes or mends their ways. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love yourself enough to release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.

Forgive them, not because they deserve it, but for your peace of mind.

It frees up your power, heals your mind and spirit. It opens up a pathway to a new place of peace where you can persist despite the pains you have gone through. Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. To show them that their actions do not influence you anymore. To take away their power of control over you. To see them as humans who've treated you from their own level of maturity and consciousness. Move ahead in life, appreciate the good things, and align yourself with the serenity and beauty God has surrounded us with.

"There's nobility in compassion, beauty in empathy, and grace in forgiveness."