Forgiveness is an afterthought?

"Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble dwelling with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, milk and butter of the freshest, flowers at my window, and a few fine tall trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did to me in their lifetimes. One must, it is true, forgive one’s enemies—but not before they have been hanged.” Heinrich Heine

Quote at http://ace.mu.nu/

Heine was a writer, poet and etc. and, as poets and etc.s think, had enemies of a higher nature. I don’t have any enemies. I suppose that makes me lacking in forgiveness. If you have never had to do a thing, you cannot understand the thing. Or something.