Thanks Matt. Agree with your teacher. Pain is unavoidable for most of us but suffering is avoidable for all.

Big Blue, I dont know if you could have gotten to this stage of forgiveness earlier. I am not that evolved to answer such a high level question. However, I do know that your future is very bright now, all thanks to this learning that you have had. Nothing in life is going to make you suffer for too long now 🙂 When we forgive, we are telling our mind in a very convincing manner that we do not have time to hurt ourselves. We are too precious and awesome to suffer, yeah !!