Vengeance and moral responsibility

We hear this comment too many times when truth is spoken out loud don’t we? “Oh, forget it, he is just settling his scores. Avenging his insult.”

What’s the difference between vengeance and speaking out truth? I often ponder about this. By nature I am not vengeful. There was a time when I used to always forgive, and forget and get too eager to repair the relationship. Then with time I learnt all relationships are not worthy of being kept. Some of them should be discarded ASAP others after good testing.

Even now, barring very few hand-counted cases the feeling of revenge has not occurred in my heart. I usually throw away that person from my life with the earnest prayer that truth and justice will be delivered sooner or later. After that I seal that person out of my lifer. There is rarely any return path.

People who share their true, bitter experiences with others are not always vengeful. A common misconception which often stops us from preventing ourselves from committing the very same mistakes. I too have done it while I was growing up. Now I give heed to these words of bitter wisdom and be wary.

As most of the normal human beings in life I too have faced my share of injustice. And I have decided to share them with others, because in that way people can get a hunch about what life is all about, and what can be expected from fellow human beings when you are in a rough spot or when you are too innocent and soft natured.

Life will become a lot easier for others if we share our experiences, both the bad and the good ones. So that smart people can take their lessons from both and work for a better life.