Forgiveness

I saw the Dr. Phil show today where a woman was still angry and bitter of somone who tormented her in high school after graduating 30 years ago. She did not know how to stop hating this person. The tormenter came on the show and claimed not to remember this girl at all in high school. This really made the victim angrier at this insenstivity and lack of remorse from this tormenter. What did this woman expect after 30 years?

People grow up and move on. I did. I forgave all schoolmates for the mean things they said and did years ago. I went to my 10 year reunion with a smile on my face proud of the novel I was completing and took a copy of the outline for anyone there to read. I got several people excited about it. That night I shared french fries on the plate of a classmate who was not so nice in childhood and adolescence. It felt weird, but a good weird. We both grew up and moved on. I hold no grudges against anyone I once knew because I want to be happy. A man on the Oprah show grew up in a concentration camp watching Nazis kill people. He said the best revenge is to be happy. I believe that. I don't need apologies on national tv to forgive former tormenters and be happy again. They are the ones missing out on me. Post later. Bye!