on forgiveness

I've been realizing that forgiveness doesn't have to make sense. In fact, maybe it just outright doesn't make sense. Maybe logic even goes against the idea of forgiveness.

If I were to say, "I forgive John for stealing my cookies because...", maybe anything after the "because" would change the forgiveness into simple justification. Because John did that, he deserves my well-treatment again.

Forgiveness is this - I forgive you because I forgive you.

And to make it even more illogical, I've been realizing that sometimes the person you really need to forgive is yourself.

I've made many foolish actions and rash decisions this past year, but maybe it's time I forgive myself for all of that -- simply to forgive myself.