REVENGE!

I came across this in the Libra horoscopes. It made me think of the answer I gave to Sloane yesterday about losing her job. It also made me think of all the people murdered everyday in the name of revenge in the middle east.


Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. Not so. It is a dish best not served at all. When we inflict suffering on others, no matter how seeminly great the justification, we do ourselves untold psychological harm. The saying "this is going to hurt me more than it is you" then is a true statement. We cut ourselves off, sometimes irrevocably, from our most precious asset--sensitivity. We compromise our own ability to forgive and forget--yet if we do not have this, we have nothing of any value!
J.Crainer

I wrote that last post in the best case senarios. Simple stuff! There are some things that are not going to be forgotten or forgiven and they shouldn't be!!! Sometimes forgiveness is easier said than done, as I just read in a post from a lady commenting on the size of her father's private parts! There are some cases where I would not forgive and sexual abuse of children is one of them!!! Totally unexceptable!

Also unacceptable are events like September 11th and the mind-set which justifies them. But this is not a political board, so I digress.

I think that the speech above would do the most good being directed at those who do and say things in an effort to "inflict suffering on others" in the first place.

Heather

September 11 was a very complicated issue...
Yes, i agree with 205, Ive personally never had to exact revenge. As much as it hurts sometimes, I have usually just walked away. Nature sometimes evens the score but there are times when you have be proactive in closure, helping people, saving children from child abuse etc...
As long as you operate from a place of integrity.
ML.

whoever said "it is going to hurt me more than its going to hurt you"

is so true... vengence is only a temporary compensation for someone's bitter resentment because injustice was done.

i have felt that before, and it is a terrible feeling when you know that you stooped to the same level of your enemy... it will just eat you up emotinaly.

i have gained nothing in return. the best case scenario would be to rise above without becoming injurious and immoral.

I-sun,

You are a very wise man! What you understand, took me much longer to figure out!