Who Do You Need To Forgive?

@Rozie37 (15499)
Turkmenistan
May 17, 2007 9:45pm CST
Who are the people in your life, past or present, that you need to forgive and why is it so hard for you to do it. There are people in our history that we have never been able to forgive. They may be people that we have forgotten all about, but when they do come to mind, the anger starts again and we may wish that we never met them. Maybe, it is an old teacher or friend in school. Or a relative that did us wrong and we have never felt quite the same for them since that happened. It is okay to talk about it here and try to release some of the pain that has been bottled up for far too long.
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@huilee (1005)
• Singapore
18 May 07
I guess the person i need to forgive is none other then myself... I mean... Dunno... Just feel i gotta take things easy on myself at times...
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
18 May 07
That's cool. I can definitely understand that. I can be pretty hard on myself sometime. I think I am a bit of a perfectionist, but believe me it is no day in the park when that kicks up.
@huilee (1005)
• Singapore
18 May 07
Yah, i guess so too.. Sometimes u noe u made mistake and trys too hard in certain things... But i guess life gets on no matter how... So just stay cool...
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@kitkat1 (1227)
• Canada
18 May 07
I do need to forgive alot but i dont know if i ever can for some like and uncle that sexually abuse me for a number of years when i was a young child i believe that is why i had low self esteem in my younger years he made me feel ashamed and dirty and i dont know if i can ever forgive him. Then my last ex is another he treatment of me was just cruel and i think about it and i get so dam mad you know. But you are right it is good to talk about them to release some of that pain. I just wish i knew how to forgive these people but for the life i me i just cant and i know it dont do me any good. Thanks for the discussions rozie it did help to tell ya all about it if nothing else.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
18 May 07
I know that this is very painful. I was molested as a child and it leaves your not only angry, but scarred. But there is no reason for you to feel dirty, because you did nothing wrong. But you know what I am thinking, how screwed up in the mind do you have to be to sleep with, not only a child, but your own niece. When my first niece was born, I was only eighteen years old, but it completely blew me away. There was no way in the world I would do anything to hurt her. These are the people in our lives that we put above all else. So if he himself hurt you, then he had to be pretty sick. There is no excuse for that. There is nothing that you ever did to cause him to do that to you. He needed help. Not only do you need to forgive him for being sick, you need to forgive yourself for blaming yourself for so long. I know that it is hard to think of this as a sickness, because it is inflicted on another and it does terrible harm, but this is not the way an uncle should ever behave, so he was sick.
• United States
18 May 07
I need to forgive my husbands ex wife..she is a total mean person..mean to everyone she comes in contact with!!..I don't want to ever hate anyone but I've come close to hating her a couple of times!!
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
18 May 07
For me, it is hard for me to hate someone like this. The reason is, I can't help but feel sorry for them. If you know that you are not doing anything to cause her to act that way toward you, then apparently SHE has a problem. If you learn to look at her with compassion, you wont hate her so much. Especially, since you say she is like that toward everyone. I can tell you for certain, no man in his right mind likes a mean woman and that I will swear by.
• China
18 May 07
"Forgive" is one of the proundest word in the world,which teachew us what's tolerance.A great emperor's forgiveness to barbarian tribes can save many warriors' lives and a common people's magnanimity can bring more happiness to himself in the end.Then,why not have a try? However,it's easier said than done indeed.Sometimes tolerance reaches the top,we do need have to break out in some way.How to break out is the key.Someone tends to pay sb back in his own coin,but someone may choose to undertake the whole thing himself,hiding what have happened in his heart silently.