Forgiveness

Forgiveness is something that should be used sparingly in my opinion.  If forgiveness was just given away easily it would cause many people to do wrong things because they know they will be forgiven.  Of course people make mistakes, but if someone knew they would be forgiven they may make more mistakes.  Forgiveness should be a rare thing and saved for people that absolutely deserve it.  For example, someone who deliberately lies about something and they know they are doing something wrong and that it is going to hurt someone they should not be forgiven. They were fully aware of the consequences of their actions and they still did it anyway therefore they do not deserve to be forgiven. 
There are many times that I have practiced forgiveness because I understand that people make mistakes.  No one is perfect because humans are going to make mistakes, there are car accidents all of the time and car accidents that are unintentional deserve to be forgiven.  It depends on the person, but for some people forgiveness is something that they do not give away often.  For example, one time at softball practice one of my teammates was hitting the ball off of the machine and when she hit the ball it hit me right in the back.  Of course I forgave this girl for hitting me because she did not mean to do it.  It was an accident and accidents deserve forgiveness.  On the other hand, people have lied about me and they knew exactly what they were doing.  I did not forgive this person for doing that because he knew that what he was doing would hurt me, but he continued to do it anyway.  I think that lying is completely unforgivable because there is really no reason to lie.  A person is aware when they are lying and in most cases a lie is going to eventually hurt someones feelings down the road.
There are many people in this world that will forgive people for anything and everything because they want to avoid confrontation.  I used to be one of those people until I learned that if you forgive anyone for anything people tend to walk all over you.  In my opinion, forgiveness should be earned because it shows people that they should respect you if they do not want you to be mad at them.  Depending on the person it could be wise to forgive everyone for everything.  It is a wise decision because it does not cause any problems.  Although it does not cause any problems or confrontations there is also a chance that you could get hurt many times.  If people know that you will forgive them to avoid a problem they will be more likely to take advantage of you and your feelings. 
Forgiveness is for people who are unlucky enough to have accidents happen.  Sometimes accidents cannot be avoided and unfortunately all of us have been stuck in an accident and we want to receive forgiveness because we did not intentionally mean to hurt someone.