Vengeance

And there might come a time when your heart is full of negativity.

When someone has hurt you and you feel like hurting them back.

People say there is a time for vengeance but what is vengeance?

One man's vengeance is another man's torment. And one man's torment is another man's wrongdoing.

And the cycle of wrongdoing and torment and vengeance and torment and re-vengeance, has created enough blood in our history.

Do we really want to continue this tradition of an eye for an eye?

The only solution for a wrongdoing is an apology and forgiveness.

There is no point in bearing grudges to eternity.

What shall you gain from that negative feeling?

Let it go.

Embrace each other as brothers.

People will look upon you strangely as you offer your other cheek. But the solution to wrongdoing is not vengeance but bearing that strange look you will face from the world.

And if enough bore that strange look with honesty and without shame, then that look that seems so strange right now, will become very familiar and thus very comfortable.

Thus, my friends, forgive.

When irritation mounts, forgive.

When strangeness collects and drives you in strange places, forgive.

When you are driven beyond the comfort zones of your own familiar thoughts, forgive.

Vengeance, is not the answer. Forgiveness is.