I am not overly angry with anyone who has treated me unkindly. Does this mean that I should not consider forgiving? In other words, do I forgive only when angry or in pain from what a person did to me?

You are free to forgive whenever there is injustice toward you and you have pain to any degree.  In other words, you do not have to wait until you are fuming with anger to forgive.  At the same time, if you have no pain whatsoever then you need not forgive because, as the philosopher Margaret Holmgren points out, forgiveness is in the context of both unfair treatment and injury of some kind.

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