People even ask themselves, things such as, “I thought we were friends, do they have any idea how they’ve affected my brain and our relationship?”

Many people have found themselves in these situations because of not knowing and understanding the hidden treasure of forgiveness. They don’t realise that “forgiveness simply means loving someone enough to pursue healing instead of punishment when they have wronged you”, as Dave Wills states.

Some people don’t realise that forgiveness changes people from bad to good.

Here is a screenshot of my life on how I learned the true and fruitful meaning of the term forgiveness:

As a young man, I lived in a small town, smaller than the size of Mount Kilimanjaro. I would walk a mile away from home to school just to practice the definition of the term “education” with an intention of being a better version of myself in future, though they say, no one knows the future for we just predict and only God alone knows our future since he is the one who created us.

As school was busy seducing my mind, on the other hand, I fell in love with this girl, who taught me that love is not just a four-lettered word, and that it is not a matter of just a male and a female being connected together like a joint. The best thing I appreciated from her was that she didn’t care that I was from the dust but rather turned my background into a Garden of Eden. With my shameful and illiterate knowledge about love, I mistreated her love and I was slowly breaking her heart.

In my mind I thought I was playing a game of subway surfers that a “start button” is always going to pop-up just to restart our love when things have gone wrong between us, not knowing that she was going to get tired of what I was doing. I wish I could have corrected all my mistakes but I kept on repeating them a million times like the eyes that keep on blinking until jumping into a coffin.

As she was breaking up with me, she left a message with me that is permanently tattooed on my heart and it haunts me to this day. That message is that sometimes the closest people to you are the ones that make you feel protective but those are the same people that hurt you the most and leave you wondering.

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Tell us: Do you agree with the writer that “…the closest people to you are the ones that hurt you the most”?