Peace to Mind
Does apologizing make everything right after being wrong? For example, the Holocaust is a huge genocide known in history which targetted Jews and other minorities. The Nazi party were the persecutors behind the pogrom who set up concentration camps where they worked prisoners til death. After the war, those who survived were liberated and just left to move on from such a tragic event. Elie Wiesel was a survivor from the largest concentration camp Auschwitz and after being freed he wrote the memoir, Night. Although, not everything/everyone deserves to be forgiven, forgiveness is necessary to be genuinely happy because holding onto something will cloud your vision and overwhelm someone with emotions. If you can never let go and forgive someone, holding onto something will eat away at your happiness or even distract you from being happy. From personal experience, I once got into an argument with my best friend who I would spend everyday talking to. We were a part of each other’s daily lives and would always be there for each other. Until one day we got into a heated argument and began to
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It’s true you won´t deep down always forgive someone because their actions are irreversible or may be unforgivable, but it’s better for there to be an effort of forgiving in order to move on. Or you may argue that people can move on without forgiveness and just not care or hate that person and what they did. Though just as Elie Wiesel noted in his preface, ¨the past lingers in the present.¨ (Wiesel vii) There will always be a part of you that'll hold onto what happened. For example, after the Nazi´s freed the prisoners Elie said not one of them thought of revenge. However, just like Elie Wiesel many of them most likely suffered mental health issues from such a horrible event. Though if the Nazis somehow made amends, there could have been a different
We forget about our past and let it go. It wasn’t some people faults, that people in the past did some horrendous deed. Like what Hitler did, supposedly he blamed the Jewish race for doing something in the past. What happened in the past, is dead in the past. We may not know, though, what Elie Wiesel learned throughout the Holocaust.
The “perpetrator” then reflects on their comment and feels guilty for it then transforms their attitude so they aren’t the “bad guy” anymore. I believe that forgiveness allows the perpetrator a chance for inner transformation and “to escape the whirlpool of wrongdoing” (Matthieu Ricard- 236)that they may feel caught
If you don’t forgive someone it can haunt you for the rest of your life and may affect how you see different objects and
Forgive and Forget? Why do we continue to push the narrative that forgiveness is the key to happiness? Although forgiveness is often established as a crucial step toward achieving inner peace, it isn't necessary for happiness and well-being. Depending on the offense's severity and the offender's lack of remorse, holding onto negative emotions and choosing not to forgive can be a viable alternative that promotes personal well-being and empowerment for individuals.
Learning How to Forgive Forgiving someone do not remove the guilt of a person or a group who makes mistakes. Forgiveness is an unexceptional theme that society has since early times in the history of humanity, and it is a easy target for individuals of a social group to judge. The theme brings up religious effects, which influence many actions and what believers do. When it comes to family, the society’s finger of blame is pointed at parents who fail their responsibilities in raising their children.
Hannah Patterson 23 March 2023 Honors English 10 Period 3 Dead Inside and Out During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler led Nazi Germany to kill approximately six million European Jews. Millions of Jews were tortured in harsh concentration camps for years as they fought for liberation. However, survival following this genocide was traumatic and difficult because most prisoners had lost most aspects of their lives. After Elie Wiesel’s liberation in Night, his life would be forever different because he has lost all of his family and all of his happiness.
Neither Anne or Elie got murdered by these horrible people thankfully. Frank and Weisel were both getting treated very badly, and they were also
Forgiveness Must Be Within Very few people are truly happy in life, because we are all a little mad at ourselves. The only way to become truly happy is to forgive yourself. In the book night the author Elie Wiesel tells the story of what he experienced throughout the holocaust. You see how horrible it was and how his life was affected by the atrocity. Although some people say that you do not need forgiveness to be happy I disagree.
In the long run, these events don’t matter. How we handle the situation rather than the situation itself is what increases our character. When experiencing a trial, each person has two choices- forgive and move on or hold on to the hurt and remain bitter. Forgiving others is necessary to attain true peace of mind. But not always do people know how to handle situations such as these.
So I will confidently say, forgiveness is never necessary for long term happiness if you can learn to move on. Lots of people in our world consider themselves generally happy, now how many of them do you think have been wronged? Probably a lot, whether it was a full blown betrayal or simply having a pencil stolen,
Kamalpreet Kaur 10/25/2015 2nd period English 11 Final Draft Essay Night by Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust memoir about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945. Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30th, 1928. On December 10, 1986, in the Oslo City Hall, Norway, Elie Wiesel delivered The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech. Elie Wiesel is a messenger to a variety of mankind survivors from The Holocaust talked about their experiences in the camps and their struggle with faith through the
Forgive, not because they deserve forgives, but because you deserve peace. It’s not easy to stop blaming someone’s fault, especially for someone who do wrong to us. In the book The Sunflower written by Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Holocaust during World War II, he described his conflict with Karl, a dying Nazi soldier who killed many innocent Jews and begging for forgiveness for his outrageous crime at the end of his life. At the end of this sad and tragic episode, Simon did not response to Karl’s request directly; instead he left us a tough question: “What should you have done?” Based on what Karl had done during World War II and his repentance, each person might have their own point of view about where should we draw the line of forgiveness.
Furthermore, it is true that forgiving doesn’t make all wrongs okay, but forgiving is not the same as forgetting. It is possible to forgive someone, but not want to pursue a relationship with them. Executing resentment towards someone is not the same as continuing interactions with them. For example,
“I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.” (Kidd)
Why should we mourn the past and lament our inability to get rid of the pain or intoxication of the past. For repentance is of no help, but of depression, of pessimism about life all day long, or of lying on the books of history. The sun will never return to the east, the baby will not return to the womb, the tears will not turn back into the eye, and the history will not turn upside down. A person can not live as a negative factor in life as a mental burden, but to waste time and waste life missed opportunities. A person's past can become the spiritual strength, making it smarter and braver today.