By skyforbes 
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the offenders and offended apart
An experience on TikTok last night made me think that when some people ask for an apology, they have another ugly agenda. Do you forgive and forget? If so, how?
We’re told it’s righteous to forgive our enemies, but should we? If we do so, maybe neither of us learned anything. Over sixty percent of people surveyed agree that to forgive is divine, but over fifty percent admit they don’t personally forgive and forget. Far fewer people even know how.
As a writer who pens suspenseful novels about vengeance, I play around with the idea of forgiveness versus righteous retribution often. How can we earn forgiveness? Can we really forgive wholeheartedly? To truly forgive and forget, I’d need a lobotomy. I have something in common with the female protagonists in my novels. We remember every hurt and insult with too-perfect clarity.
As Ovid Fairweather, heroine of Endemic says, “It’s not as if it happened in the past. Every insult feels like it’s happening again, right now.”
I’m waiting to hear a response from literary agents about my latest thriller, Vengeance Is…