Despite my strong desire to forgive someone and remove the burden from my shoulders, there was something missing from my process of forgiveness.
It took me years and a lot of self-reflection to realize that there was one stop I didn’t visit before reaching the other person’s station: myself.
I used to focus directly on the other person’s mistake and try to accept and forgive it. But when I failed to accept other people’s mistakes over and over again, I realized that I need to also accept my own mistakes as a starting point.