Throughout your life, Kieran, people will give you cause to be angry - some will be dishonest, wome will cheat you, some even will betray you. You can spend years thinking about why they did this. Such years are wasted time, though. It is best to forgive and to move on.
By "forgive" I do not mean to naively trust so you may be taken advantage of again. Instead, I mean to accept that what they have done is because of their own weaknesses - moral, emotional, spiritual, perhaps even physical. Perhaps if their lives had taken a different course years ago, they would not have wronged you or others as just have. And perhaps in the years ahead they will realize their weakness and strengthen their moral, emotional or spiritual fiber.
In the meantime, you must not let your anger and sense of hurt over their actions to rule you. You can empower yourself by forgiving them.
With that, my son, let give you some quotations about "forgiveness" to mull over and hopefully guide you:
"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well." - Josiah Bailey
“…one who was ‘forgiven little, loves little.’” - W.P. “Ab” Abercrombie
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Les Brown
"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when is foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." - Confucius
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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