Aristotle, one of the greatest philosophers once said that to become a better person, we need to have magnanimity - to rise above pettiness, to forgive and forget people who have wronged us in the past. Without forgiveness, people say things would linger.
However, isn't it normal for us to feel anger, disgust and even abhorrence to those who had wronged us in the past and left us scarred? So how do we simply forgive those who never repent? What more forget?
Most of us have had deep wounds within us at some point in our lives. It takes time, a great time to heal deep cuts. Some of them take longer than we expect. Yet, when it heals, it imprints a scar on us eternally - for a reason. A scar is the history that we carry with us forever. It reminds us of the pain we went through in the past and the strenuous days and nights we went through to heal that wound. So, why should we simply forget what caused the scar?
Yes, we should not linger but move on. Yet memories have a way to emerge when we least expect it. Perhaps forgiving is the most sensible action but forgetting is not. Part of who we are today is due to our history. Hence, one can never forget history because those who forget it, are doomed to repeat it.
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