cliche

Forgive and Forget.

Forgive, but don't forget.

So what does it all really mean? I mean, we all grew up hearing the cliche of our elders and role models, but how do we really learn forgiveness? Is it coated somewhere in our DNA? Is it the lessons we learn on the playground in pre-k? Or do we learn it from our parents, no matter how backwards their antics might seem?

Forgiveness can be granted with or without the other asking for forgiveness.

Some of the people we meet (like myself) are less inclined to hold things against people. I don't know why, but finding the "benefit of a doubt" is pretty easy for me. I guess I see both the human side and the realistic side of people and their actions... and perhaps a little too readily. It's left me holding on to the good in not so good people and clinging to the hope for things that really will never come --- but it has also kept great people from exiting my life, my family from falling apart at the seams, and mostly, me who I am. 

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. 

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing -- or to understand everything. 

You decide.