Yoko Ono & John Lennon

Forgiveness or Forgive and Forget - we hear a lot of either of these or we even preach this to the people around us. But is it that easy to practise it? If it's just someone losing one of your treasured belongings or spoiling a lucrative deal, forgiveness or forgetting it may not be difficult though grudgingly. But what if the act involves taking a life of someone close to you? Would forgiveness be easy?

Yoko Ono, though calling for a worldwide day of forgiveness on the anniversary of John Lennon's death on Dec 8, is herself not ready to forgive his killer. Can you blame her? Read article below which I've retyped due to the illegible print on the image:



YOKO not yet ready to forgive
LONDON: Yoko Ono has called for the anniversary of John Lennon's death to become a worldwide day of forgiveness, but said she could not yet absolve her husband's killer.

"Every year, let's make Dec 8 the day to ask for forgiveness from those who suffered the insufferable," she said in full-page newspaper advertisements.

"To the people who have also lost loved ones without cause; forgive us for having been unable to stop the tragedy."

She thanked all those who wrote to her at this time every year to say they were thinking of her and her husband.

She said Lennon was "shot and killed at the prime of his life, at age 40, when he had so much life ahead of him."

Mark Chapman, the obsessed Beatles fan who gunned down Lennon in 1980 outside his New York apartment, remains in jail and was denied parole for a fourth time earlier this year. - Reuters

Source: The Star