I believe that everything in life happens for a reason and we need only recognize the perfection around us. People are not their behaviours and pure love is only unconditional and never judgmental.
When we believe another has hurt us, the only thing we can ever do is to forgive and love. When we forgive another, we don't need to express our forgiveness of them, because often we have felt hurt for something that was not meant to hurt us. Many times our need to forgive another is often to forgive them for something that we perceived was done to us. It is not necessarily that they wronged us, meant to wrong us or even believe they hurt us.
Forgiveness allows us to forgive another for our perception as well as for how we reacted to our perception. Forgiveness allows us to recognize that people don't necessarily mean to hurt each other but that we can rectify any situation by offering love, compassion, forgiveness and truly feeling remorse at any pain, or perceived pain we have caused another.
When we say sorry from our hearts and soul, others feel our love and it does indeed help our own healing, our own growth and ultimately helps us find peace. When we forgive ourselves and when we apologize to others, we are expressing our love: Our love of self, of each other and of God.
Love is what matters in the world. This is my belief and my truth. I don't believe in conditions or demands and I believe that what we put out comes back around to us.