Forgiveness is sometimes the hardest thing to give to someone, especially when they hurt you in a way you thought they never would. You want them to suffer knowing that your forgiveness is the one thing they will never have. They might be apologizing time after time, but you feel the need to hold on to the one thing you feel like you have left from them. Even if it's slowly hurting you in the process because it is not letting you heal and move on in life.

People can hurt you in a magnitude of ways, whether it’s your best friend starting a rumor about you or your boyfriend of two years cheating on you. Either way, it's people putting scratch marks on the fragile tissue of your heart. Some people might already be good at forgiving. Hearing “I am sorry” might be enough for them to put a bandage on the sore spots on their wounds and they can move on. For others it takes more, the hesitant feeling they get when their gut tells them that an “I am sorry” isn’t good t=enough because that person might be as honest as they say they are.

We as people deserve more than to hold on to our pain, we must learn the importance of forgiving not for the people who are careless enough to hurt us. For the importance of healing our own hearts and find the happiness in our lives so we can discover what it's like to not hold grudges and not have a million different baggage’s hanging onto our heavy hearts. Everyone can be strong in their own ways, day by day find someone new to forgive, whether it’s the person who took the seat in your class yesterday or a broken friendship. We can heal our own hearts, and we all deserve to know the importance of forgiveness for we all deserve to live happy lives without grudges bringing us down.