Once there was a life that suffered greatly at the hands of other lives. This suffering caused the life to make friends with resentment, who introduced the life to hatred and as they all continued down the path this life was on they notice that the life was getting sick not just in body but in mind as well. Concerned for this life, resentment and hatred introduced the life to sedation and bid farewell to the life. Sedation told the life that as long as you always have me by your side you will still suffer greatly you just won’t care that your suffering, and down the path they went. After many, many days and nights on this path it was clear that the life was sick again and much sicker than any other sickness the life had every experienced. Sedation reached out to his friend fear knowing that sedation could not cure the sickness at had over taken the life. Soon fear and the life realized that they needed to seek shelter from all the suffering , somewhere far away from all other lives.They believed the suffering would end. As the seasons came and went the friendship between fear and the life deepened, they would become inseparable. After many seasons of isolation a stranger appeared in the shelter and the life confronted this stranger through the eye’s of fear and with all the hatred the life had been taught. This stranger told the life, my name is forgiveness and I mean you no harm. The life said I’ve been told that before and it always leads to great suffering. Forgiveness asked if they could talk awhile? The life and fear reluctantly said yes. Forgiveness went on to say I am easy to understand, hard to follow, and misunderstood. The life said tell me more. Forgiveness continued to say that the sickness that is in your body and mind is due to the hatred you were taught by resentment. You have to become willing to forgive those lives that have caused your great suffering. The life responded, why should I give the gift of forgiveness to those lives that have caused me such great suffering? Forgiveness replied, your questions is why I’m so hard to follow and usually misunderstood. Explain said the life. Forgiving those other lives is not for their benefit it’s for yours. Forgiveness is the only cure for the hatred that makes your mind and body so sick. Forgiveness told the life that the path of forgiveness will take a lot of practice, it doesn’t required fear to go with you and down the path you will find peace and freedom. Fear didn’t like what forgiveness had told the life and said don’t believe forgiveness for if you do you will experience the greatest suffering every. The life was silently sitting, pondering all that had been said. Finally the life broke the silence by saying I will change to the path of forgiveness. Forgiveness told the life I will send progress to walk this path with you. Progress will teach, comfort, and guide you to peace and freedom. Over time fear disappeared, progress and the life became best friends and the closer they got to peace and freedom the more suffering started to disappeared. The life realized that the path of forgiveness was not prefect and in fact the aura of peace and freedom would cause other lives to attack the life. But the life was better prepare to deal with the attacks and the suffering was far less than the life had felt on the path of resentment.