Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.

Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.

Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.

The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.

The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.