Forgiveness
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FORGIVENESS!
There is a rule we would all like to follow and honestly believe that if everyone keeps that rule our world would be a better place to live in. The rule is 'Do to others as you would have them do to you' although this is the exact copy of the words that Jesus Christ used at the end of his teaching on the mountains according to the Bible. But there is a similar thing in almost every religion and in the hearts of all people who do not even believe in any God at all.
We should all forgive others if we want forgiveness from others. I would like to talk about something we all want but something we're not willing to give or do and that's 'forgiveness'. We all want to be forgiven or to be free from the past or the wrong things we've done but most of the time we're not willing to forgive others of the wrong things they did to us.
There is a statement that everyone uses when he/she is in a conflict with someone and the statement goes like 'Don't get mad get even!' and people really look like they are having fun with this idea of getting even to ease their hurt, pain and anger caused by their offenders and thus go on and become an offender themselves. But when we see the consequence of revenge it is more harmful than the offense committed...