When others hurt us we hold the grudge as a badge of honor and end up paying a bigger price in the form of lost energy and loss of peace of mind.
Instead, if we forgive wholeheartedly we let go of all future hurt. When you can forgive others you can also forgive yourself.
What stops us?
Something called negative ego……. which makes us react with: “How dare they do this to me? I will teach them a lesson!” In the end, we are the ones who get taught a lesson. Mainly, “An eye for an eye makes everyone blind!”
The lesson here is that forgiving others is tantamount to forgiving Self!