Experience In My Life

Throughout my life, there have been many ups and downs which have been caused by the people who have come into and out of my life. Here I am, 16 years old, and have been through some things that I hadn’t really thought I would have to endure. I understand that many other people have worse problems than mine and have endured much worse than what I have, but I believe that because of my past experiences and hardships, it helps me learn how to deal with tough situations and the power of forgiveness, which ultimately makes me become the person that I am today. Growing up, I didn’t get to have or experience grandparents that I had, in a sense, wanted to have in my life. Instead of having grandparents who took their grandchildren out to do fun

This was how life was for a very long time. This was until someone had had enough and the other person decided to never speak to us again. There and then, I knew that my life would be altered in a way that I never fully knew or understood how. That was the last time I had seen my grandparents.
This was 10 years ago.
Within the past decade, I’ve learned a lot from this experience and many other experiences that relate back to this incident. For the longest time, I was battling with efforts to forgive and to grant forgiveness to them. During this time, I refused to forgive them because my thought was, “Why should I forgive someone who has wronged me in so many ways and so many times over and over again.”
I had thought this way until it was too late. My grandmother died in 2013 and my grandfather died 8 months after her death.
I remember walking up to each of their funerals with my parents and the rest of our relatives and everyone being dead silent. No one knew what to say because no one had anything to say. Nobody had written those sappy speeches that would make us reconcile on their lives. Even grown adults couldn’t look past their differences and forgive