No matter who it is that hurt you, or the magnitude of the pain they have inflicted on you, never justify your revenge on someone else’s actions. At the end of the day, life is a constant struggle, not necessarily against others but against ourselves, or at least the darker aspects of ourselves. There’s a reason why Mark Twain said ‘Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” The effects of anger, resentment, and negative energy in general, have been intuitively understood by human beings for centuries. Behind the scenes of our seemingly “ordinary” everyday world, everything is actually energy, and there are so many different kinds of energy at work all around us, constantly influencing us and changing us, for better or for worse. Although everything is energy, what’s most important of all is that we are able to come to an understanding that we ourselves are energy. We have power and potential. I don’t dare to say infinite, but we have massive amounts of power to create change, both in ourselves and in the world around us. Don’t get me wrong, I understand it can be difficult to actually find a proper and effective way of doing that. I haven’t necessarily figured it out myself, but I think the beginning of change has to come from some kind of deep respect and mutual understanding. We should really try to understand each other. I’m not trying to justify anyone’s crimes or injustices in any way, but as I said, change comes with understanding, and whether we like it, or whether we like to admit it or not, the worst people we can think of are still products of society just like us. Most people who harm others are coming from a place of deep hurt themselves and are reacting in the most natural way they know. The anger and resentment they hold within has successfully corrupted them. I completely understand the anger of someone who’s been victimized and who feels entirely justified in wreaking havoc, but the sooner we understand that we have to forgive and move forward with our lives, the better it will be for ourselves. I think it’s extremely important that we learn to cultivate mindfulness within ourselves, because if we could remain in a constant state of mindfulness, we would realize that we have the power to rise above the worst kinds of negativity and hate, and to avoid any negativity that might come to us from the actions of others. By taking revenge on someone else, all you are doing is becoming a vessel for the hate inflicted upon you by the person who harmed you, and therefore you become a representative of that hate, so to speak, carrying and spreading that energy of anger everywhere you go, creating an increasingly hateful atmosphere for others and for yourself, as well as for your descendants, for it is obvious to the wise that we can never escape the reality of interconnectedness. Any harm we cause to others, we ultimately cause upon ourselves. As a final note, consider that, if someone had previously hurt you in some physical or financial level, or any other human level, you have now allowed them to truly hurt you, when you choose to take revenge, by successfully corrupting you on a metaphysical, perhaps even spiritual, level.
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