“When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.”

-Alan Paton

We can try and hate a person as much as we want, but that won’t do us any good. We shouldn’t hold grudges against anyone because that won’t make what’s wrong right, it will only make it worse. The only way to truly move on is to forgive each and ourselves. I like to think that believe we forgive others we need to forgive ourselves because what’s the point of others forgiving us if we still feel guilty. For example, there’s this show, Girl Meets World, that I used to watch that had an episode, “The Forgiveness Project,” relating to this topic. The episode was about one of the main characters learning to forgive her dad who left her when she was young. She couldn’t do it because there are certain things that take long to forgive. She wonder why her teacher asked her to do it if he knew she couldn’t and that’s when he told her the whole purpose of that project. He asked her if she had forgiven herself. She always blame herself for her dad leaving because she never knew the real reason she thought he left because she wasn’t good enough. The point was for her to know his reasons and when she did she knew that he left because he wasn’t ready. This lead to her forgiving herself and later on she could forgive him. This relates to the statement because she wasn’t able to move on until she forgive. It is important to forgive, but more important to forgive yourself.