(May 5, 2011 at 7:45 pm)RDK Wrote: If you ran over your best friends kid backing out of his driveway, would you care at all? Are you someone who knows that this has got to be the worst shock to your best friend that he has ever experienced. Do you feel remorse for what has happened? And if so, do you think that he could ever foregive you? You know that you have hurt your friend deeply. But your friend is truly the best bud that you could ever have. He foregives you. Do you care? That's his problem now, right. Why should you care if he foregives you at all. You don't really think of him as a friend anyway, so who cares about foregiveness. But still, if you have a conscience, you will feel terrible for what you did, even if it was an accident. Foregiveness is something that is given to help offset the guilt and anguish that you surely must feel. Left without, you may never be able to face your best friend again. Your guilt would be renewed every time you saw him. Foregiveness is a gesture of love to you, even though you were powerless to bypass the accident. Your hell is the neverending guilt that you would feel tormented by because you caused someone great harm. God is your best friend.
Forgiveness is really only helping the person who is forgiving, If you ran over your best friend's child accidentally, you really did nothing wrong. Him forgiving you would just be his way of maintaining his relationship with you. If you cannot forgive yourself for something you did, you will never get over it.
I don't ask anyone for forgivness, I try my best to forgive myself and get over it so I can make better choices later on in life.
Live every day as if already dead, that way you're not disappointed when you are. 
