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On letting your success be the best revenge

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I am not necessarily one of those people who believe in an absolute ‘eye for an eye’. I have always been a pacifist and more of a ‘turning your cheek the other way even if they bite you on both side’ type of person.   However, when you get older and start to get out of your bubble of social circles more often, you would find yourself dealing with jerks and people you think may be the embodiment of an absolute evil spirit and you can’t help nurturing hatred or harboring desire to take revenge. You start realizing that maybe it’s not totally right to fault people for wanting revenge. When you start experiencing the extent of pain and how severe the damages caused by that evil person can be, you may find yourself realizing that maybe having the urge to take revenge is primal. It’s a quest for vigilant justice that is normal to materialize within individual when whatever existing justice-generating mechanism deemed fail to fulfill their sense of retribution as a victim.   ...