Forgive

Depending on the misdeed, forgiveness is not always easy to grant, whether it be face-to-face or internally. In my short 16 and a half years on Earth, I’ve experienced many sides of that spectrum, through which I’ve found that the act of forgiving always brings about eventual peace of mind.

Especially with age, the ability to forgive seems to grow more complex as the situations do. In my most prominent struggle to forgive, I was ashamed at the fact that I didn’t really want to forgive the people who had hurt me. After all, my boyfriend had cheated on me with someone I’d come to trust. However, the more I fostered those feelings of bitterness, the more I moved away from closure and, consequently, remained stuck in a negative and non-productive headspace.

People are so much greater than their actions; realizing this and accepting that mistakes truly may be mistakes allowed me to stop dwelling on an unfortunate situation. The resulting freedom to move on proves forgiveness to be a beautiful thing.