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Strength in forgiveness

Strength in forgiveness
        It is Halloween and it’s time for everyone to dress up. My favorite costume would be a superhero costume. I am a big comic geek and my favorite superhero is superman. Superman is my favorite hero because he has lots of powers such as flying, shooting fire from his eyes, super-speed, super-hearing, huge lung capacity and super strength. I am yet to find any superhero or villain who could match superman's strength except doomsday. But as much as I respect Superman's character I always sometimes view him as weak. I always thought he was weak because he never liked to use his power to hurt people even they deserve it, even if they are a threat to his life. I just couldn't understand how someone with so much power seems so linient. In our culture, a man's strength seems to be judged based on how many of his enemies he could defeat. I have come to realize how backward we have it.
        A quote from one of my favorite movies "Schindler's list" says "power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't". Oskar Schindler went to tell a story of a man who was caught stealing and was taken to the emperor. The man knew he was going to die so he begged the emperor for mercy, and the emperor pardoned him. He concluded by saying "that's power." Schindler was trying to tell the German officer that power is not killing people because you can but pardoning them when you could kill them.  Our true strength doesn't lie in punishing people who have hurt us when we get a chance to them, but forgiving them when we have a chance to hurt them. This is because it is easy to seek revenge when we get a chance to hurt someone that has hurt us, anyone can be vengeful. But it takes a lot of heart, courage and character to forgive people when you have a chance to get even.
       It is hard to forgive someone who has hurt you especially if they hurt you real bad. When someone hurts you, you seek revenge because you want them to feel the pain you felt. But that never solves anything, it would only lead to more pain for someone else. It wouldn't undo what has already happened and might lead to causing you more pain in the future.
        Superman is still my favorite superhero because his true strength doesn't lie in all those amazing powers but in his ability to give people second chance even to people who don't seem to deserve. Let us not forget our true strength lies in our ability to forgive, not in our ability to be vengeful.

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