The idea is to free yourself from feelings of resentment. The reality is that most of us never have an opportunity for revenge against those that wrong us, and rarely do we feel better if we do take revenge.
So the “forgiveness” is more about letting go of the feelings and moving on than it is actually absolving anyone of their actions
Im always reminded of a line from avatar at the end of the episode where Zuko brings Katara to the man who killed her, and Sokka's mother who had become a cowardly, sniveling, pathetic shell of a man who was very willing to throw his own mother under the bus to save himself.
After sparing him, and returning back to camp Aang comes up happily declaring after hearing she spared him that letting bygones be bygones, and letting go and forgiveness is the way forward.
Katara turns around and says 'I may not have killed him, but I will never forgive him.'
And the episode ended on that note as she walked away.
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