Forgiveness

I know of few people who don't have forgiveness issues. Does this include you? It has been said (don't you enjoy these sanitized references to someone...) that the only thing that keeps us returning to this three-dimensional plane of experience is one of learning to accept and extend forgiveness, which of course is but Love in action. So, why extend forgiveness? Let me assume that we have moved, or are moving, past feeling justified in feelings of animosity toward another because of what they have done. "Just look at what they did to me!" "Just look at what she said about me!" For here we but wallow in self-pity and continue to roll over our yesterdays into our today's saying, in effect, I give myself permission to use what happened so I can feel just as crappie today as I did when I was wronged. This is okay, for it is but a neutral choice to use God-energy as it moves through us, but the outcome isn't pleasant and we are seldom fulfilled and happy. Forgiveness is really a very selfish gift that we give not to another, but to ourselves as we allow ourselves to move forward into new experiences and not remain stuck within the mire of fear, for this is what it is as we but have two major choices in life, either love or fear. Is anything worth an eternity of return trips to puberty?