"Before you forgive others, you have to forgive yourself"

-Judith Navarrete

I created this quote using outside knowledge and other stuff I have heard before. This quote means that you won't be able to forgive others if you still hold yourself accountable for something. For example, in "Girl Meets World" (a TV show) there was an episode called 'The Forgiveness Project' and it was about how the characters had to forgive someone who hurt them before. One of the character decided to write to her dad who left her when she was younger to tell him she wants to talk to him. He comes and tells her why he left, but she just couldn't forgive him because he hurt her too much and  made her feel like she wasn't as special. She tells her teacher that she couldn't forgive her dad so she failed the project, but the teacher tells her that that was never the point of the project. She asks him what was the point and he said, "Did you forgive yourself?" The reason why he made her talk to her dad was because she blamed herself, she thought the reason her dad left was because of her, so he wanted her to find out his reasons so she won't feel like that anymore. This is what inspired this quote, I thought it was a valuable lesson that everyone should know about. You can't go around forgiving others when you don't forgive yourself. What is the point of forgiving when you can't even do it yourself? It is important to forgive others, but it is more important to forgive yourself. You feel better after forgiving someone, but you will feel much better after you forgive yourself and understand that you do mistakes and that some things are out of your control. You are never to blame for something out of you control, you can't control and fix everything in life. Stuff happen and that is life, you can't stop it for happening.