I Know it is hard to leave the past. It is difficult to forgive and forget the people who may have hurt you, but you mentally close the door of the past firmly behind you and open another door to freedom. When you leave your past behind, you don't carry over into your present life, a mental chart of the things or actions other people did to you. You do not spend three hours a day wringing your hands and trying to understand why the unfortunate incident happended. You do not moan over the unfair judgement passed on to you. What you do, if you want to positively get even, is to make your life so succesful that your enemies will wonder how you recovered so fast! As one writer says "Living well is the best revenge."