There are so many people who project their opinions and thoughts onto other people. They want others to have the same opinion as them and the same vision. There are so many controlling elements and forms of attachment facing humanity today. There are many rules and restrictions placed on people, but there is little room for mercy unless it meets a defined criteria and agreeable terms of the afflicted person. To be merciful you must, not only forgive, but forget.
Love is the virtue of mercy.
You limit the amount that you can love by limiting the amount of mercy you show. Conditions and restrictions molded into your lifestyle, along with the need to control, inhibit you from maturing in God's love and surrendering with total trust and childlike confidence to His will. Realize, little children, how you judge someone when that person does not meet your standards, and how your pride will not accept or permit a person to change. When you perform an act as such, you are proclaiming by your actions and thoughts, to be superior to God. By not allowing people to forget, you do not allow mercy to unfold and love to mature in its entirety.