Tooth for tooth

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Austin O'Malley

Cooking revenge

Once I didn't like what they did to me. I walked and thought about this situation all the way, and suddenly I realized that I was thinking about how I could take revenge on this person. I didn't want to admit it, but inside myself I began to hatch plans for revenge.

Why do vengeful thoughts turn into concrete actions that are destructive? This is the return of the pain that was caused to you, in double, triple size. That is, according to the law of conservation and transformation of energy, this pain must return to the offender.

But won't it stay inside, increasing several times?

There are many different sites on the Internet dedicated to this issue. For the offended and those who want to properly repay the offenders, detailed recipes for revenge on anyone are offered. The methods are rude, vulgar, refined, in general, for every taste.

For those who want to punish their enemy more seriously, so that they will be remembered for a lifetime and remembered from the other world,"

Interestingly, after all these suggested recipes for revenge, at the end it says: take revenge on health, but remember that revenge destroys, above all, the most revengeful … But then, is there any sense in revenge, if apart from mutual suffering it brings nothing?

Revenge of the ex

Dmitry loved his wife very much, although he sometimes beat her. The wife could not truly appreciate the love of her husband and filed for divorce. The ex-husband could not come to terms with this circumstance and decided to take revenge. Revenge came at a high cost. The panel of judges sentenced Dmitry to 15 years in prison for cold-bloodedly stabbing his wife and her new husband.

A lawyer was approached by a woman who had lived with her husband for twenty years. After they decided to divorce, they had thirteen divorce proceedings, during which they tried to ruin each other's lives through these endless courts and proceedings. The ex-wife asked her lawyer in plain text: "Please, help me somehow shit on him, I hate him."

A young girl was admitted to the hospital in a very serious condition, who decided to take revenge on her boyfriend for the fact that he began to meet with another. She jumped from the tenth floor when she found out about it. It was her revenge for treason, which cost her a lot. She wanted to die for them "for evil", but as a result she doomed herself to torment.

Each of us knows many such stories and, probably, thinks about why a person goes to such actions, which often end tragically?

Blood revenge

There is still a concept of blood feud that exists in countries with a tribal way of life. The justice of revenge is defined in these peoples simply and clearly - what he did, what he received. If you steal a sheep or a woman, then know that in return the affected clan will also steal a sheep or a wife from you; killed someone, which means either they will kill you, or your relative. Eye for an eye, death for death. Blood feud even ignores state laws.

The hot temper of the southerners affected the long-standing cruel tradition of vendetta, which means blood feud. In the old days, there were real clan wars, and it was considered a valor, a duty of honor to avenge a relative from generation to generation. Now this medieval custom has become a thing of the past, but, nevertheless, such reprisals do occur.

Such generic revenge became the main theme of Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet". The author begins his work by telling about two warring families who no longer remember the reason for this age-old enmity. But due to the fact that no one wants to be the first to go to reconciliation, this enmity destroys not only the love and life of two young people, but also destroys many innocent lives. This revenge, as a consequence of human pride, eventually becomes a "plague" for the entire city.

Terrible revenge of the baboons

Blood feud is also inherent in the behavior of baboon monkeys. It is now better for motorcyclists not to ride on the mountainous section of the road between Mecca and Et-Taif. Dangerous for life, you can fall under the hail of stones of baboons, flocks of which live in the gorges. The monkeys got angry for a reason. Once a motorcyclist ran over their fellow tribesman, and at the "council of the flock" the baboons, apparently, vowed to take revenge on the owners of the two-wheeled monsters. They managed to watch the killer three days later, thanks to the "patrols" posted along the road. This man was saved by the helmet. But the matter did not end there, and now everyone who passes through their property on a motorcycle is greeted with stones by the primates. Alas, in this case, it will not be possible to agree on a ransom for the victim through the judge-kadi: monkeys do not understand the human language. But on the other hand, they firmly know the "blood for blood" custom.

Monkey feelings are easy to understand: they were treated unfairly, their friend and comrade-in-arms died. Maybe they are offended that the process of evolution is over, and they "do not shine" to become human? Although, why? Much in common and so. It is also natural for a person to take revenge, only more refined and tougher.

The past destroys the future

But revenge, whatever it may be, first of all destroys the personality of the one who repays "justly". A person who is hatching insidious plans experiences psychological breakdown, confusion, resentment, despair and anger. Obsessed with the desire to take revenge, he cannot get out of a painful mental state, again and again returning his thoughts to what happened, thinking over plans for revenge. And the more sophisticated and detailed these plans that he builds in his imagination, the sharper and more painful his experiences.

Revenge can become an obsession that has completely taken over the mind. The person becomes literally obsessed with the idea of revenge, and nothing else interests him. In the event that he cannot realize his revenge, his feelings do not find a way out, he sinks more and more into the abyss of despair. Hence the direct path to depression, and sometimes - to suicide. Such a person has no future.

To avoid this, let's forgive each other. There is a whole science of forgiveness, developed by psychologists of the New Age movement - a new era. Even if you don't know how to forgive, first you need to want it strongly. For seven days in a row, seventy times write by hand or type on the computer: "I, Irina, forgive you, Alexei, for the fact that you did not what I wanted. I completely release you from what you have done and from feelings of guilt."

Forgiveness means liberation. Forgiveness dissolves resentment.