Forgiveness: Letting go of Grudges and Bitterment. Mayo Clinic, n.d. Web. 10 April 2011.
According to the Mayo Clinic, forgiveness is important. Harboring resentment for years can cause someone to be permanently afflicted. “By embracing forgiveness, you embrace peace, hope, gratitude and joy.” One of the benefits to forgiveness is less stress and hostility, which consequently leads to lower blood pressure. This is physical reason to forgive people. The reason why I am talking about this is because in the episode, Train Heist of the series “Firefly,” the crew of the Firefly are asked to do a job and do the job without out asking questions, only to realize they were stealing form people who really needed the stolen goods. The stolen goods turned out to be medicine and once the crew realized this, they decided to return the goods. I think two extraordinary things happened: 1) the crew decided to not earn the money and return the medicine. 2) the sheriff decided not to punish the crew for stealing the goods in the first place because he forgave them. It takes a big man to forgive and the sheriff of the town obviously had a big heart and a caring personality to recognize that the crew made a mistake and that they were sorry for it. The way that the sheriff knew that they were sorry because the crew made the effort to come back and return the goods, an action the sheriff appreciated. This makes me hopeful that in the future (even if this is nothing like the future) someone else believes that good people will still exist.
Yeah i agree it takes a big person to forgive. Especially in that circumstance.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see how the thieves truly care deep down when they find out that the goods they stole affected innocent people. I like how they only steal when they know what and who will gain and lose.
ReplyDeleteAt Scott, this relates to my next blog, where it says that "those who only remember the past are likely to repeat their mistakes," (or something similar to that). The crew learned from this mistake, and THAT I think is what makes this such a good example
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