Forgive and Forget?

Forgiving and forgetting is something really very difficult to do. But it is a must and we need to do it. Time will heal of course but it usually takes a lot of time. The challenge in trying to forget something, is when you are in a situation related to what you are trying to forget, you tend to remember what happened in the past and you also remembering everything including emotions.

If the person regretted with all their heart the harm they caused to me, there would be a chance for forgiveness. But this rarely happens. It doesn't make sense to forgive someone who's not even sorry. It's like being sorry for something you didn't do. I don't see why I should be examining myself when others around me don't even bother.

I can forgive, but I find it hard to forget.. more so if he did something I can sue him for. I steer clear of the person and never befriend that person anymore once he or she does something wrong.

It is not possible to forget anybody or anything in our past history. I always remember the good & bad thing which has happened in my past. I had tried to forget them but it is just not possible for me.

Forgiving someone and forgetting something depends on who is this person and what he/she has done to you. For me it takes time to do it. Until the pain subsides, then maybe i can move on and let bygones be bygones. Maybe i can easily give forgiveness but to forget what he/she has done to me, i don't think so. The pain will eventually vanish but the memories will always be there. The more if the same will happen again and again.

I can forgive and forget as long as I honestly love that person for who I know they are, not their actions. If it happens again, work through it again!

I have akways been a forgiving person. i am always ready to give someone another chance. forgiveness comes easy for me. it is just my nsture. Forgetting is something else entirely. I may forgive how you have wronged me, but forgetting it will take time.

Forgiving and forgetting, humane acts which could be easy to some and hard for others. Forgiving means to openly bestow acknowledgment of understanding to someone who have done us wrong, and in doing so, clearly showing the good nature inside of us. Forgetting on the other hand is a bit of a different story because sometimes what is done can never be redone...and that the most that we can have that we learned something to make us more aware making us more as better individuals. he who forgets the past has no future...

Nope, i can forgive but i cannot forget.If a person hurt me i can forgive the person for watever reason, however , i will remember the event almost forever.There is still wary and suspicious of the person from that day on.If the same thing happen again i will be prepared and it will be no surprise.Properly the person will be blacklisted by me.To forget is a myth in my opinion.

It's depend on how hard did the person hurt me. I can forgive that person easily but I can't forget it easily. Deep in my heart I already forgive that person but if that person do the same thing again, I'll remember what had happened in the past.

Everybody makes mistakes, even we ourselves did. The most important thing is to learn from it and not to repeat the same mistake again and again. If you think he/she has learnt from the mistake, then it is okay to forgive and forget. Don't get too complicated, give him/her a chance and get along with your life. The more you thing of a problem, the more problems you will get in return. Cheers!

Forgive and forget is a moral code but it is very difficult to follow like any other moral code say speak truth always etc. You can forget in the passage of time and change of cicumstances. Forgiving is a noble quality.There a famous saying which goes as "If you do not forgive you will never grow". If you forgive you have immense satisfaction. The law also recognizes this concept of forgiving like pardon petition to the head of the state who has all powers of forgiving irrespective of the seriousness of the crime.If a criminal is forgiven there is every possibility of his becoming good in his behavior and conduct subsequently.The scheme of amnesty is nothing but forgiving.That is why on important occasions the culprits in jail are released.Similarly for good conduct the prisoners are released from jail which is also an act of forgiving.From religious angle forgiving is accepted. In Islam religion Allah is considered all merciful. Confessions made in churches also is an act of seeking forgiving. All said and done it is definitely a welcome trait.

For me, I don't think I can forgive and forget that easily especially if it involves a past that has traumatically changed my present. People who say that it's easy to do certainly hasn't experienced anything that can alter their way of living in a bad way. Besides, there is no way to forget memories unless you have amnesia. It will either haunt you in your sleep or you remember them when something similar to that event happens.

Forgiveness is very hard.. Forgeting is nth times harder than forgiving.. I can always forgive those people who hurt me but I will never forget the pain because whenever you see that person, he will always remind you of a painful experience. That's why I will no longer trust that person.. :)

Hi Len, for a blonde, I have a very good memory so the "forgetting" part is out of the question. If someone does me wrong, I can forgive but forget? No..that is not possible and we shouldn't forget. If I forgive and choose to continue the friendship or relationship then it will be with full knowledge of what this person is capable of. It will never ever be the same as when I trusted without question. If I choose to continue the relationship or friendship then I will not throw the old wounds up in the persons face but my blinders are off. Maybe over a course of time I can and will come to trust that this person also has grown and learned from the experience and would never do the same thing again. If I can't do that then I will move on from the friendship and not hold a grudge but the friendship would not go any further. Either way...forgetting isn't an option.

It depends on the situation that you are currently in. Sometimes it is easy to forget and easy to forgive. I can really say that it is easy to forgive but hard to forget the things that happened. Sometimes there are past issue that has already forgotten but then open up again or being tackled in the future.

Both are possible, but [Forget] is harder to do.