Forgiveness - a power of humanity

Today I want to share my view about forgiveness.
The famous saying goes "To err is human, to forgive is divine". What makes the power of forgiveness comparable to god? The very nature of human is to get angry and feel resentful towards those who have hurt one or did some harm to one in any way.
We tend to remember the undesirable actions of others which impacted us and made us feel bad. Forgiveness is the act of overcoming the feeling of resentment or revenge for the person who has done wrong actions.
Forgiveness is a virtue but the way people perceive it is quite relative. Some people think that certain actions are forgivable, while others are not. Some people think that forgiveness encourages the wrongdoer to perform ill deeds repeatedly. Forgiveness is subjective and the act of forgiveness can have many meanings . Acceptance of apology may be forgiveness for some, while helping the others who hurt you to get out of the habit of ill treatment may be a way for others.
We all make mistakes. So when we learn to forgive others, we can also seek forgiveness when we commit follies. Also if we are able to forgive others, we also learn to forgive ourselves in situations of self guilt. Thus the virtue forgiveness helps us come out of the feeling of self blame. If we fail to forgive ourselves in time, we often end up realising that others had forgiven us long back, but we keep feeling bad ourselves all this time.
Though there may be many people who would still believe that forgiveness is humanity, yet to discourage and prevent any such future acts of terrorism, such people must be severely punished and not forgiven.

** This post is written with the help of a article found in Google**