I think that letting go of what happened in the past and moving forward is a way to be able to be mentally stable. If you keep all the feelings that you had in the past and hold it inside yourself, it stops you from thinking about how the situation isn’t going to get any better at the end for you. Where we’re at today, we don’t have the ability to bring someone back from the dead. If someone dies, they’re dead forever and you have to admit it to yourself that you can’t do anything about it anymore and how it’s past. Practicing forgiveness is a skill that someone can have. If you are able to forgive others with ease and not hold any feelings against them after, you’ll be able to feel better about the situation after. I think that it’s hard for some people to forgive because they don’t want to let go of the hatred they feel to the person, making them want to hate them forever. Even though it would be a waste of energy to hold such emotions against someone. I think that for some people, forgiving someone may seem like they’re showing weakness. But in reality it takes a lot of courage and strength to be able to forgive someone. When you make mistakes, you usually don’t want to admit you have made a mistake because it’s natural that someone wants to be perfect and not to be wrong. I think that having restorative justice is a way for people to be able to forgive themselves and not feel like what they have done wrong is going to be extra bricks on their shoulders for the rest of their life. Every person should be able to express their feelings openly to someone and have the weight on their shoulder be lifted off. Some people aren’t able to forgive themselves. But with the help of others, they may be able to realize that you aren’t able to erase the past and your should hold onto it, you should just turn onto a fresh new page.