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Monday, November 26, 2012

Forgiveness By A Broken Mirror



What is the real meaning of forgiveness? Is it enough just by hearing someone says, “I Forgive You”? You can be preaching about how important forgiveness is for us to move on, and how to get the forgiveness from God for all our sins, but how sure are you that you yourself can actually do that? What does it mean by forgiveness, actually?

When someone does something that really hurts you, and you get mad, it’s whether you tell the person to his face or you just remain silent. You feel the pain of the person’s actions towards you. Knowing that forgiveness is important, so what you can do is try not to live by the hurt, but try to let it pass, and you think you manage to do it. You don’t keep on thinking about the person’s fault anymore, and you just consider that you have forgiven the person. Of course the person doesn’t know that he has hurt you that much, or maybe he doesn’t even know that he does something wrong, so he never asks for forgiveness. So only you know that the person has done mistake and you must forgive him in order to let go of the grudge. You swear to yourself you don't have hatred for the person anymore. So, is by doing that enough for you to consider you have forgiven the person?

Wait until the person asks a favour from you. What will you do? It’s whether you will avoid, or you will make excuses, or just stay out of contact with the person so you don’t have to deal with him again, or maybe just do the favour. Is it possible to just do a favour after what the person did to you? So what do you call that? Remember, that you have forgiven this person. Just wondering if forgiveness also means that you Forget Everything wrong that they person has done to you and start back from zero. Does it apply to normal human beings like us? Or does that mean you have not yet forgiven a person if you fail to start back from before the incident took place?

Consider that you are a broken mirror after you have been hurt by someone. When you decide to forgive, does that mean you should be back to the whole intact mirror? But in the case of a mirror, it’s not possible. The cracks will always be seen. But we are not mirrors. So I’m just wondering, really wondering what forgiveness really means. I wonder if we only say that we forgive, but we never actually forgive – and is it possible to just be the same way like nothing hurtful ever take place, to finally mean what forgiveness really means. Oh man. It’s time to find out the answer :)

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