Let's be serious for a moment. You think you can go your whole life holding resentment and it's not going to ruin you and rot you from the inside out? That's not how this life thing works beautiful people, no not at all. The more you hold on to it, the colder and harder you get. We start off as such innocent beings, such softness in our core, just to let our resentment and anger and lack of forgiveness turn us into someone harder, less compassionate, and even more defensive. Then we wonder why we attract the same type of people into our lives. WHAT YOU PUT OUT YOU WILL RECEIVE. Now I know, trust me God I know, hurt people hurt people and that's probably how some of us were hurt. When I had to forgive others (it was literally life or death) and I was figuring out how to go about it, I prayed and prayed for God to give me the ability to be able to let these resentments go so they wouldn't end up killing me. It was hard, I had been abused and humiliated and hurt by those closest to me at the time. But I wanted to come out to the other side, I wanted to get better. The second I showed up for myself and asked God for help and really made the decision to forgive, that's when I started feeling lighter. I felt like okay, I'm not in this alone, my chest doesn't feel like it's about to cave in anymore. I had let go of the poison I was drinking everyday, expecting it to hurt the person I was resentful at when in reality I was just destroying myself like a form of subconscious emotional torture. I wasn't alone anymore because I had God on my side but truly, falling back on his word and prayer. Seeking him was my first step to a world of forgiveness. Let's be real, he forgave me for all the terrible things I had contributed to the world at one point, so who was I to not forgive. Just another perspective, a more common one maybe.
