The Importance Of Forgiveness

Aphorisms to Live By

“Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others” (Albom 18). Forgiveness is virtue, and yet it is one the most vital and toughest emotions to give or receive. People tend to remember only the unpleasant and undesirable actions of others or themselves which arise feelings of resentment and of revenge. Forgiveness is overcoming these feelings and instead to feel acceptance. Forgiveness allows people to live without hard feelings towards one another and allows us to clear our minds of blame, hate, anger, and other unpleasant emotions. When I was in early in middle school I used to be a very bad and disrespectful kid, I drove out people from my life and did a lot of things that my parents were unhappy about, things I would

It was and still is hard to forgive, but learning the values of forgiveness from a dying man such as Morrie from the novel, Tuesdays With Morrie, has further taught me that we are all not perfect and make mistakes, so you will need to forgive yourself and others to be forgiven. “Death ends a life, not a relationship” (Albom 174).

Elusive yet imminent, death is incredibly unexplainable in the matter of human emotions and relationships. Relationships are built through emotional connections so when the physical presence is gone, the relationship seems to leave with it. This aphorism is important because it serves to remind people that there is emotion even after death. My favorite uncle died almost five years ago. He used to be someone I always looked up to and someone I always wanted to be like. We had a really close relationship but when he died, it did too.

I never went to his grave after the funeral, and I never kept our memories. The physical absence made me believe that our relationship was

The influence the society has on the public is unimaginable. With so much and so high standards, people always feel the need to change their looks, their actions, or their perspective on things. These feelings cause them to succumb into social pressures and they end up changing their mentality and attitude. This aphorism prompts people that you can follow social standards but also preserve your own unique attitude and mentality.

In so many ways society impacts our lives and put perceptions on how everyone should look and act. Everyday everyone, including myself, looks at these perceptions and cannot help but take something from them. I always try to keep my identity unique and cherish my values but every now and then it seems like I have changed. In someway that is always true but it is hard not to wonder how much change was due to social standards.

Tuesdays With Morrie has taught me that you can follow social perceptions and regulations while also creating your own culture by preserving your own values and thinking. Your attitude and personality should not change because of how others wants it to change, it should stay true to you. Morrie kept his own values by accepting every part of him and I plan to do the