Revenge Can Make The Whole World Blind And Hurt
As Gandhi said, “an eye for an eye ends up blinding the whole world.” With non-violence as his rule of life, he uttered these words in the hope that there would be enough ears ready to listen and understand his message. His warning about revenge is easy to understand but difficult to apply.
People want revenge when they have been deeply hurt. When someone you love and cherish hurts you, it can leave an emotional scar that burns with such intense heat that it begs to be extinguished by inflicting pain on the attacker’s heart.
When you have a deep emotional wound, you may feel a need to inflict similar or even greater harm on the person who hurt you first.
Revenge: immediate gratification, permanent consequences
Revenge is a failed attempt to create balance. Because no matter how many adjustments you make, there will always be imbalance. The injured person will feel inferior. They will feel they are worth less than the person who hurt them. So therefore they will try to hurt the other person so that they can regain his first balance position or become superior.
The first feeling that usually arises when you get revenge on someone is satisfaction and the feeling that everything has regained its balance. But this feeling quickly disappears. It paves the way for the feeling of guilt and remorse. It can also feel like emptiness, like when you finish a major project, if you have dedicated a lot of time and resources to planning and executing revenge.
Even if you do not feel remorse after getting revenge, the weight will still not be completely balanced. The consequences of revenge may last well into the future. The desire to cause harm disappears and grief takes its place.
It is impossible to predict the future and know who you need on your side. Maybe the person you want to hurt today is an important person in your life tomorrow. H usk that vengeful feelings disappear. But the destruction you cause because of them can be profound and permanent.
Never again
When someone opens the first page of the book of revenge and decides to read on, it’s hard for the story not to escalate until it reaches the book’s climax. The intensity of each character’s actions tends to increase as the situation becomes more complicated.
Revenge lives in a land called Never Again. There are people young forever and there are no rules or responsibilities.
When the problem occurs between two or more people, there are different ways to react: run away, attack or solve the problem. If revenge is the case, then the decision is to attack. If both people decide to use the same strategy, the conflict will escalate. Until one party decides to have lost too much in the fight.
The world lacks humanity and has too much pride
In the culture of honor, where the most important thing is not to cause harm, but to regain honor, relationships end up hurting people. Quenching revenge by attacking others will only fuel fuel for hatred. S closes, instead of the fire, only the first step to let something new arise from the ashes.
There is no justice in revenge
Responding to the pain with more pain does not change the situation or make you feel better. Most of the time, being brave is not being stronger than the other. It’s putting yourself in their shoes and deciding that you do not want anyone else to relive that pain.
