Eclectic Evenings: I have a topic....

So, this is going to be a fairly vague post but I decided that I wanted to hear what intelligent people think about the topic of forgiveness: How do you do it?  What does it take for you to forgive somebody?  How hard is it for you to trust them again?  What about varying degrees of forgiveness?  This question is interesting to me because there definitely are degrees of forgiveness and there are certainly people I am more willing to forgive than others.  I was thinking about this at length tonight and came to the conclusion that I don't even need an apology or a sense that the person is apologetic in order to forgive them.  For me it's more a matter of whether or not they understand why I was upset or even if they acknowlege my feelings that's generally good enough.  I find apologies make me feel awkward and almost forced into forgiveness because that's what you're supposed to do.  The problem with an apology is that it is often just empty words.  I don't believe in doing things because they are what you are supposed to do.  I believe in doing something because you believe it is right.


There is my blurb. :)  I may have done this wrong but I posted it because somebody has been too busy slicing their fingers off to get this underway.....

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