I believe in forgiveness. People make mistakes and no one can change that. I don’t think that it is fair that you should judge someone on one time of their life. People change and you should accept them. It is also not fair for them because of one mistake they don't want to forgive them. If they want to be forgiven you know that they really are sorry. People can change even if it is within 5 minutes or 30 years. Sometimes with the person that did something wrong, they don't want you to forgive them. That is when I think you need to try even harder. They are obviously ashamed of what they did. They need to know that it was a mistake and every one makes them. They just may need someone to talk to and you can be that person. You never know when someone is hurting and no one should even be hurting because of something that they did, and feel bad for.

In one situation I asked my mom for my phone. She said that she did not have it. So I said to her, “well than you lost it because I gave it to you.” She told me that I didn't give my phone to her that I must have put it somewhere. I kept telling her that I gave it to her. She told me to go look in the car. There it was in my bag. She was right I had put it there and I never gave my phone to her. I said that I was sorry and she knew to forgive me. I could see the anger that was inside of her. That was a good thing to do because it was just a little mistake I had made. She was a little mad at me. She did know that she had made mistakes like that before and it was just not my fault; everybody has those moments sometimes. If she had not forgiven me she would have stayed mad at me just for that one bad part of my life.

Forgiveness is letting someone know that you are okay with what someone did even if it was bad. People need to forgive. People get hurt so often because of a mistake. Forgiving them can be the thing that changes if they are happy or not. Sometime people think that it is not a big deal if I forgive someone, or they just don't say it. That is a big deal. It may not seem such a big deal to you but it can really mean a lot. They have those words telling them that what they did was okay. That they should not feel bad about it. Without saying those words someone may think that you don't like them or want to be friends with them. You may not want to be friends with them if that is the case you should still forgive them. Maybe say I forgive you and what you do, but I don't think we should be friends anymore. Either way people need to learn you accept and forgive.