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