Student Success Statement Alan Paton

Student Success Statement

"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."

Alan Paton 

What Alan Paton is trying to say is that we have to learn how to forgive. When someone does something to us we have to learn how to forgive them. There's a difference between forgiving and forgetting. We can always forgive a person but just because you forgive them, doesn't mean that you're going to forget what they did. Forgiving someone makes you feel in peace with yourself because you don't hold that grudge on yourself or that resentment. For example, lets say that someone called you ugly, and you never forgive them, you're going to keep that grudge for a long time and that's not going to let you be happy. Forgive people, show them that you are the bigger person who is willing to forgive them. When someone hurts us and we don't forgive then we're never going to recover because of that bad feeling we're holding against them. Forgiving someone can be hard but once you do it, you'll feel great.