The essence of forgiveness

Forgiveness as it’s famously claimed is the giving up of the fault and evil that someone has done to us. It’s disconnecting from the bad emotions that people's actions, flaws, mistakes, and words have caused us. Forgiveness is needed in our day to day living as we can easily offend someone and also get offended by people.
It goes from the small things to the large things, it could be when our parents refuse to do something essential for us or even fail on their promises, our siblings going against our will, our boss raising their voices at us and so on.

We have a lot of offences that happen in our daily life because it’s not easy for human relationships and communication to happen without any strain. We aren’t robots and won’t relate without sometimes going out of personal will and stepping on the toes of people.
I work as a class teacher in a public school and observing the settings, it’s very easy to offend one another in that environment, very easy. Even you, as a person, are supposed to have the mentality that somebody can offend you at any time or any day.

When people offend us, we become disappointed because we didn’t expect them to do that to us, this then reels up our emotions in a way we don’t like.
Forgiveness is essential in our daily life as human because it allows us to keep our relationships with people and understand people more without having to cut and replace those close to us. If your parents or family members offend you, you can only forgive them, forget what they did and move on, same as friends.
One of the reasons why people don’t forgive is because they In their own way want to keep that person in their emotional prison. This may be cause, what the person did was very painful to them and they find it hard to forgive and forget. What they have failed to realise is that, they are doing more evil to themselves than to the person who offended them.
Why did I say so, when you are angry at soemone and you refuse to let go of that anger, after a while, you repress that anger and it’s stuck in your soul. This also like magnet, attract more bad emotions to you, so they keep compounding.

Anytime you see that person, the anger you have repressed comes up again, now in an aggravated form and it disturbes you. The other person may not know the hell you are going through because they on the other hand are free.
This goes as far as having our physical body and our feelings and emotions, when people offend us, the best thing is to forgive and forget, if you want to continue a relationship with them is personal choice but you have to try as much as possible to forgive and move on.

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