Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Forgiving Your Friends...



We have all experienced it. The feelings of hopelessness and anger when a trusted friend suddenly turns their back on you. We have all felt the hurt and pain of trying to understand what went wrong, how your best friend could do something so horrendous and inexplicable as that. A word of advice for all those  with hatred and vengeance in their hearts: a relationship in which neither friend is able to forgive the other will not benefit either one of you. Yes, forgiveness is certainly tough; how could you just simply walk away, brush off all signs of sadness and literally forget something that left such a deep impact in your life? It is inevitable that there will be bumps and misunderstandings in any relationship, talk-less with your best friend. The truth is that we cannot see inside each other's minds to be able to know that things were never intended to harm you. Everyone has buttons that their friend may unknowingly push. However, when a sincere apology comes your way, you need to be able to forgive your friend. This involves trusting that your friend truly didn't mean any harm and wants to heals the rift between the two of you. 

However, sometimes we are never be able to forgive somethings. If  making it up between you and your bestie is definitely not in the foreseeable future, consider this instead:



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