Forgiveness to me is more about letting it go for yourself, allowing yourself to heal and not carry around the hurt and anger anymore. You can forgive another silently without even telling them. But to me, it's more about healing oneself than anything because holding onto anger and pain only hurts YOU not them. That's why people talk about forgiveness so much. Even when a wrong is seemingly unforgivable, you can forgive someone for being such an a-hole because they didn't know any better. People who commit hurtful and wrongful acts wouldn't do so if they knew better.