Revenge

I was not able to publish any article yesterday. This will be the second time for this year as I also had missed a day last month. This is bad but at the same time I was able to rest my brain. Although I still do not have any topics in the coming days. LOL. Also I want to apologize if I haven't replied to your comments and tags yet. This week has been very unproductive for me. I promise to make it up to you in the coming days.

So what have I been busy about lately? Well my mom and I watched a Korean drama the other day. As of drafting this we are still on episode 10 but the movie was all about getting revenge to criminals, bullies, corrupt and all evil doers.

Growing up, we were taught by our parents, elder people and the church that we should do good things to other people even if they did us something bad to us. I am not going to ask but I am pretty sure that you also have wanted to take revenge on someone who have hurt you in the past whether it is a classmate, former lover, neighbor, workmate or whoever who have wronged you. However, I want to ask how you got your revenge? I hope it was a minor revenge and not the kind of revenge that we see in movies.

It ia normal for kids to fight and my brother and I have also been into a lot of quarrels that time. We were like cats and dogs and I usually win probably because I was fiercer or my brother just lets me win. But whenever I lose, of course I needed to get my revenge. You know what I did? I would always break my brother's toys. LOL. My brother has some action figures that he likes to play with after coming home from school so I would break either the hand or the leg of his toys and he will come running to our mom and tell her what I did. Honestly, it felt really good to do that to my brother's toys. However, even if I got my revenge, my brother's anger was grew stronger and bigger that is why the next time that we would have a fight, he would hit me hard but like I have said, I was a fighter so I did all things just to get even.

Those were just the petty revenge that I did before. Even if I was bullied or was called a lot of names, I did not fight back. Instead, I also became a bully. They preyed on me so I also preyed on the smaller fish. I did not get my revenge on the people who bullied me but I bullied on someone else. I became a bad person for getting revenge. I think it was when I have met my true friends in high school that I stopped bullying other people. I also stopped getting revenge since my brother and I never got into fight. We did but it was a battle of words and not fists.

There's a famous saying, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". What can you say about that? We usually hear it on movies but I am done with getting revenge. It only makes your heart and soul so dark that all you can see is how to get even. For the people who have wronged me, I just let karma do its job to them. I know that karma will also be looking for me since I have did some bad things in the past. There were instances when people dragged me down but I did not to do anything to them and waited for karma to do its work. You know what, they got a dose of their own medicine. There was this feeling of satisfaction when I found out that they also experienced what I had been experiencing before. Just like what Alicia Keys said in her song, "what goes around comes around. What goes up must come down". Let God punish the evil people. Let the law punish those who have committed crimes. Let us not take matters into our own hands.

If your former lover cheated on you, do not cheat on your next relationship. Instead, be a better person and get even with him or her by proving to them that you have found someone much who is worthy of you and make them regret for losing you. If your superior or workmate treat you unfairly, report them to the higher management or walk away. If your classmates bully you, tell it to your teacher or talk to the principal. Always do the right choice. As much as we want to hurt them, let us not go to that point. Remember the golden rule, "do unto others what you want them to do to you".

February 10, 2022

P.S. lead image is a photo of one of my brother's toys. It is not the one that I destroyed as he have probably thrown those away.