“I'll get even with you if it's the last thing I do!” “He's gonna pay for this!” “She better watch out from here on out, because I will be waiting around the corner!” “Just when he thinks he is safe I will be on him like nobodies business!” Has the reader ever heard or said these words? Has the reader ever felt this kind of passion? Has the reader ever wanted this type of revenge? To some degree the writer imagines that most people will answer “yes” to those questions. When someone is harmed, the intensity of retribution is increased, and sometimes that retribution drive controls their lives.
When a person is maligned, taken advantage of, injured or harmed, the natural reaction is to retaliate and get revenge. Sometimes people do not desire to just get even, but they want to get more than even. Their cause is worth retribution, and the perpetrators must pay! Right? But what if they don't? What if the wrongdoer just gets away with it, off scott free, and without any penalty at all? What if they just injure and leave and go on to live their lives as though nothing every happened? How does one react to that? Is there no justice? Is there no one who will make it right? Is there no evening of the score?
One person put it this way, “What goes around, comes around.” Another said, “Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.” Still another said, “There is a law of reciprocity, and those who do wrongly will be wronged themselves.” In other words, somewhere, somehow, without ever knowing when or where, that which the wrongdoer has done will be returned. The key is to not be the one who has done the wrongdoing, and allow the retribution that comes be for doing that which is good and not that which is evil to others.
Until tomorrow...Why Say More?
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