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Forgiveness is one of the most important things you can do not only for yourself, but for the people around you. When you hold a grudge it doesn’t do you any good and the longer you hold it the more likely it is to affect your life.

It might be hard and you might not feel like the person your upset with deserves forgiveness. You always have a right to your feelings but there are so many reasons to forgive, here are 8 of them.

1. It messes with your emotions not to
When you are angry with someone is usually shows, especially if you are around them a lot. If you forgive them whenever you see them you won’t think about the horrible thing they did and instead might see that they are maybe doing the best they can or had reason for what they did.

2. There’s no good reason to hold a grudge
What good comes from holding onto anger? If someone mad you mad sure you can treat them like crap whenever you see them, but what good does it do? Do they deserve to be treated like crap all the time? No, no one deserves that. No matter what they did I’m sure if you think about it, there isn’t any real good reason not to forgive them.

3. They might not even be as upset about it as you are
You might be sitting around all day, crying over what someone did and they might be out having the time of their life. Why are you sitting around being upset about what someone else did when you could just get over it and move on with your life?

4. They might be even more upset than you are
On the flip side, they might be even more upset than you. Maybe they are taking things way harder than you are and your anger towards them is just making things worse for them. If they were beating themselves up all day about something they did and then they see you and you tell them you are still mad at them they are probably going to feel even worst than before. Make things a little easier on them by giving them the gift of forgiveness.

5. You will be happier
Letting go of negative emotions will free up space for more positive ones. Instead of spending so much energy on being angry, sad and feeling down, you will have more energy to feel positive emotions like love, kindness, peace, and understanding. And maybe even your good energy will spread to others.

6. Everyone deserves forgiveness
This may not seem try since some people have done some really horrible things, but if a person truly is sorry for what they did and is doing their best not to do it again, they probably deserve forgiveness.

If they have no remorse for the situation then you deserve to allow yourself to forgive them so you don’t have to feel bad about them anymore. What people put out into the world is what they get back so allow the universe and God to take care of the wrong that they have done and allow them to bring good into your life.

7. Everyone makes mistakes
There is no such thing as a perfect person which means that everyone makes mistakes now and again. The key is to learn from your mistakes or even learn from other people’s mistakes so you don’t do the same thing yourself. Don’t be too hard on someone who made a mistake, especially if they learned something from it.

8. Because it’s hard
One of the big reasons people avoid forgiving those who have hurt them is because it’s hard. It’s hard to just let go when you’ve been holding on to something for so long. Especially if the person did something to harm you, it’s even hard to forgive.

But just think how good you will feel when you spend and entire day not thinking about that person and how angry they make you feel. Soon that day will turn into weeks, months and then soon enough you will truly have let it go.