Forgiving In The Song 'The Heart Of The Matter' By Don Henley

In the song The Heart of the Matter written by Don Henley could be portrayed in many ways. The way I look at this song not even the song but the words on this paper is how long does one hold on before letting go? The first line says “I got the call today I didn’t want wanna hear, but I knew that it would come” It’s like until you hear those words you cannot move on until you hear that. You always have in the back of you mind that there is still a chance for you to make it work, or that one day you will both come to the realizations that you need each other and that all this time apart will make you appreciate each other. Until you get that call call hearing that person or hearing that news from another person you do not relies that its time
I fell like they talk about forgiveness in this so much because after hearing this not only do you now know this is happening which is the first full step of moving on but the second and the hardest and most important step in my book is forgiving. Forgiving is giving yourself the strength to move on and let go not for the sake of the other person but for yourself. The second to last verse has a line that says “The more I Know, the less I understand” this is so true and relevant the more you learn about a person the more in depth you become with them the less you start to understand why they do things they way they do, or why they make the mistakes they do because you know that actual core of the person. Which then interns mean you have to forgive them for those choses so that you can understand why or make peace to yourself. One of the last lines in the song is the one that really wraps up this entire idea and sums up the entire point in my mind. It says as follows “You’d better put it all behind you baby, ‘cause life goes on,” No matter what happens in life with another person the chapter may come to a close with them but there are still more page left in your