Revenge Is Toxic

From my personal experiences throughout life, I’ve come across some situations in my past where I’ve wanted to seek revenge. Mostly all of my intentions toward people are purely positive and I’m all about helping people and uplifting them in any situation. My reasoning for doing so is because I remember times where I went through dark times and I was the only person that I could depend on. In my past though, when people would mistreat me in any sort of way I would immediately have a sense of vengeance and retaliation in order to make my presence felt. In most of these situations, the outcome was never something positive and it would turn into something way more serious than it initially was, to begin with.

When people bring negative situations in your life there’s no reason to retaliate. When you try to seek revenge you are only bringing on more problems for yourself. In your mind, you’re doing anything in your power to hurt that person the same way, if not more than they did you and it’s not even worth it. The best way to deal with this situation is to let the universe deal with them. Personally, I believe in whatever you put out into this world you will receive it back the same way if not worse or better than you put it out. In the back of your mind if you experience someone mistreating you promise yourself that you’ll never treat someone else in the same manner. Never get out of character and react in a way that you will soon regret, stick to your morals.

When you’re feeling that urge for revenge it purely comes from a place of emotion. The primary emotion felt deep down is anger and betrayal which makes people want to seek revenge in the first place. If you notice though, any situation made when you’re angry isn’t 100% logical. In those moments we can’t really think straight because we’re so fixated on the amount of disrespect we feel from this other person and we just want to see them suffer. Don’t you see how much you can destruct when you’re upset? Why put yourself through all of this trouble just to deal with someone who obviously doesn’t have respect for you? The best thing to do is to become aware that you’re upset, sit with it, and eventually develop the mental toughness to let it go. At the end of the day life still…

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