How we respond to the difficult experiences of life directly affects our spiritual and physical well-being. Many lives are ruined by bitterness or a lack of forgiveness.
People go through physical and emotional breakdowns because they refuse to forgive other people.
The longer we carry a grudge, the heavier it becomes and the more it costs us. Forgiveness is an act of the will in which a person decides to relinquish any right to get even with an offender. It is a contract. Feelings may or may not change at the time that you forgive. The feeling of anger toward a forgiven person may, or may not, subside immediately upon forgiving the offender.