People who let resentment and anger drive their lives, hold on to hurts and never forget them.

Instead of releasing their pain through forgiveness, they rehearse it over and over in their minds. They either clam up and internalise anger or blow up and release it on others. Neither is healthy nor helpful.

Resentment hurts you more than the people you resent. Your offender has forgotten the offense and gone on with life, while you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past.

Job 5:2 says "To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do."

                                                                                                        - Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life

Rick Warren is a very brilliant writer. I have been reading his book The Purpose Driven Life and believe me it is worth every minute I have spent reading it rather than working on my dissertation. I wish I could send every one of my Nuzizo friends a copy, but I'm a poor student LOL. Instead let me just encourage all of you to get it, TRUST me its a seed worth sewing into your life! Resentment and Anger are two emotions that have been the driving force in my life for a long time and definitely two emotions that I can do without. As he says, they are neither healthy nor helpful. I disagree with him a little on Anger though, sometimes you need to get angry when people bullshit you, hurt you or try to tread on your dreams, but definitely it's not an emotion you should dwell on or let control you!