A big difference, but the two can go hand-in-hand. To forget something entirely is disregarding it completely, never coming back to it unless you are reminded. In a way, it almost seems like it is forgiving. Not really, there is no official forgiveness there. But it seems like if you never touch the topic again, people might think you have forgave and forgot. You don’t seem mad anymore, so you must have reconciled, right?
Well to forgive is one thing, forget is another. Forgiving leads to forgetting, it’s not the other way around. If you truly have no intention of forgiving, then you won’t forget. We see it everyday after all-ghosts of the past still holding strong in people’s minds. Whether it has something to do with Jim Crow Laws or the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it’s there. People won’t forgive, and that means no forgetting either.
It’s really sad how that stuff is still around. It happened so long ago, and you would think people would have forgotten, if anything, by now. But like I said, they won’t forgive. They pass on their thoughts and ideas to their kids, who then pass it on to theirs…it’s like a cycle. A pretty unjustified cycle too, considering the kids weren’t even alive at the time.
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I think this idea of forgiving and then forgetting is right on target. However, I feel that forgetting in relation to forgiving is more of the idea that you don't bring it up or hold it against anyone if you have already forgiven them. And I agree that it is very sad that people haven't forgiven. Every race has been hurt by other races and hurt other races--that is reality. I think that each race and individual should take the "high road" and forgive.
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