When you take revenge on somebody, you are actually paying them the highest compliment possible. It's like saying, You affected my life to such an extent that I must reciprocate. I must affect your life as deeply as you have mine. Revenge may be the ultimate Hallmark card. Yeah. When you think of it like that, the cliche is true: Revenge is sweet.
Ah, everybody's favorite forbidden dish.... Revenge.
Its funny how many people discourage and dissaude the concept, revenge, they will tell you that 'Justice Will Be Served' or 'What Goes Around Will Come Around', but given the right circumstances and just enough motivation would be headhunting the people they hate out there.
This happens because of a lack of empathy, most people can't possibly know what you're going through, the hurt and the pain that's rushing through your very being and sometimes it makes you want to explode.
“It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
Truth be told, Revenge Is Natural.
It is the inborn trait that drives people to seek restitution or recompensation against the wrongs or misgivings commited against them, but these instances were so frequent and often that people had to adopt a regulating system called 'Justice'. But this was only when the matter between the victim and his assailant were anathema to society.
What about the 'lesser' acts of cruelty? Verbal abuse(we all know what fine weapons words can be), emotional abuse, adultery and ofcourse there's always Betrayal.....
The mother of revenge, nothing drives a person so much into vengance as to being decieved by someone we trust, or for this matter, someone we never thought we trusted so much until they became the traitor.
Betrayal puts things in perspective, because you never really acknowldge the value of things until you lose them, or int this case, taken from you. You may know their worth,
I mean its like this, you take hands for granted, why wouldn't you? They are part of you, you use it everyday, but then one day someone cuts it off and from that day till the end of time you're forced to recognise what you've lost, but there's a way to force that sense of loss into a sense of recompensation. Revenge.
But look at it on the flipside, what Revenge doesn't do for you?
It'll never bring back what you lost. It will never actually truly recompense in any way that really matters. So why indeed do we have this need to avenge ourselves?
A man stands in a cemetery, reading a letter he wrote forgiving his long dead father. The mother of a girl killed by a drunk driver is racked by fantasies of retaliation. Your boyfriend begs you for one more chance. You say to the mirror you're done hating yourself. But you know you're not. Maybe instead of forgive and forget, it should be forgive and remember. Remember that you might have to wake up tomorrow and forgive all over again. And again,and again, the way your heart keeps beating like a drum. Forgive. I can't. You can. Forgive. Forgive. I can't. You can. Forgive.
We can't let go. We can't 'unforget', the scars will always remind you. Wanting revenge first and foremost is acknowledgement. The person you want to revenge yourself against automatically becomes more important than your happiness. You need them to alleviate your pain, to express what its like to have lost something, to ultimately gain their empathy into seeing how wrong they were.
I'm not preaching that you shouldn't take revenge or anything, far be it for me to be so naive and foolish. But...
... when wanting to revenge yourself against someone, no matter how petty or grand, ask yourself this 'Are they worth it?'
Thank You for reading. Ciao. #ToRevengeOrNotTo
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