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Why I forgive? Why do I forgive people who let me down again and again? Why do I have to withstand all the anger and let these people 'step' on me?

I am a mother of two little kids and I am a housewife. Knowing that people are imperfect and that sins are passed down as early as Adam's and Eve's time. However, using the excuse of everybody make mistakes does not justify a person to make mistake again and again.

The first time a person make mistakes, he should learn from it and never repeat the same thing again. However, this is not the case for many people, be it children or adults. When our love ones made mistakes, we can hardly forgive them. However, after some time, we do forgive them for some reasons. Lets take a look now at some of my reasons for forgiving someone:

1. Love
The first most important and the essential ingredients present in contributing to anyone who is able to forgive anyone would be for love. Imagine a mother and a child. No matter what a child does, the mother will forgive the child. This is because of their love for their child. Similarly, in any relationship, where there is true love, there would be tolerance and kindness. No matter what one party had done any wrong, true love will be able to forgive.

2. Health
It is unhealthy to harbour evil thoughts and to think of revenge. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. It is natural for people to think of revenge when someone did the wrong thing to us. However, there can never be true happiness when there is thoughts of revenge and killing, hurting all in one man's mind. Negative thinking like that is unhealthy to the man and in the long term, it may be hurting himself psychologically as well.

A person who harbour the heart of unforgiveness is often feeling angry about someone. Anger is bad for the health. It is bad for the heart especially. A person who is often angry will have higher blood pressure and their mental health is at risk too.

3. Happiness
A vessel cannot keep receiving water. It will soon overflow and all the water will go to waste. It will not be a useful vessel. A vessel that gives and at the same time able to receive is a good vessel. Like the vessel, if the heart keep filling itself with unhappy thoughts and anger, then the heart will forever be heavy and not happy. If a person wants to be happy, he needs to know how to 'empty' all the unhappy things in his life. He needs to create rooms for happy events in his life. Filling one's

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