A well-known and quickly learned fact of life is that people screw you over. They fail you and they disappoint you. It has happened to me countless times in my twenty-one years of life and I have done it to my fair share of people as well. No one is perfect and we shouldn’t expect perfection out of anyone, either. The real complexity of all of this is this question: When does someone deserve a second chance?

Second chances aren’t easy to give. Sometimes disappointments hit you extremely hard. Sometimes you get disappointed by the one person you thought would never let you down. It’s hard to know whether that person is worth offering your attention and effort to once again after they have let you down. Perhaps, though, allowing that person to continue to be a part of your thoughts and efforts is truly worth it. I am going to explain why second chances are something to be considered and offered…

As I mentioned before, no one on this Earth is perfect. Mistakes are in our nature as humans and it’s something that we must accept about ourselves. Life isn’t easy for anyone. Everyone has their own personal struggles that no other person truly understands quite to the full extent. Second chances allow people to consider what they’ve done, while still offering them the opportunity to better themselves and make up for what they’ve done wrong. A second chance lets a person learn a lesson the hard way, while also showing them how lucky they truly are.

As the second chance giver, you must understand how important you are to another person. They desire your attention and acceptance enough to ask for it again because it is so crucial for them to have it. It is possible that the companionship and relationship there is between two people is worth much more than the mistakes a human is susceptible to make, and that is something that is worth considering.