Category: Life
One thing that I have frequently come across during the course of my life is the human desire for revenge.
I don't know how many times I came across weird and complicated revengeful plans, which usually require lots of effort and leave one feeling exhausted.
The feeling of wanting revenge -- like the rest of what we call 'negative' emotions -- in itself cannot possibly makes us feel good.
Perhaps at first we think we are feeling elated, that setting the score right is empowering but in my experience the opposite is true: how often do we end up feeling anything but happy instead?
And what about those horrible butterflies in the stomach telling us that maybe we've gone too far...that we really have screwed up any chance for good this time?
I believe that all of this is easily avoidable by simply trusting that whoever has hurt us will get his/her due, and that Nature -- in its infinite power and knowledge -- will know where to hit much better than anything we could ever hope to come up with.
Usually we end up paying for our shortcomings where it hurts us the most and very few people can claim to know someone as well as the very force that created that very being.
Therefore, my advice is to let Nature do its job -- try it, it's very liberating.
I don't know how many times I came across weird and complicated revengeful plans, which usually require lots of effort and leave one feeling exhausted.
The feeling of wanting revenge -- like the rest of what we call 'negative' emotions -- in itself cannot possibly makes us feel good.
Perhaps at first we think we are feeling elated, that setting the score right is empowering but in my experience the opposite is true: how often do we end up feeling anything but happy instead?
And what about those horrible butterflies in the stomach telling us that maybe we've gone too far...that we really have screwed up any chance for good this time?
I believe that all of this is easily avoidable by simply trusting that whoever has hurt us will get his/her due, and that Nature -- in its infinite power and knowledge -- will know where to hit much better than anything we could ever hope to come up with.
Usually we end up paying for our shortcomings where it hurts us the most and very few people can claim to know someone as well as the very force that created that very being.
Therefore, my advice is to let Nature do its job -- try it, it's very liberating.
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