Victims, Violence, and the human mind -

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It has come to my realization that I have a victim mentality - that is, someone does some kind of bad thing to me, my ego just loves to tell the story over and over and over, and experience all that negative emotion all over again - it's like a virtual world simulator played over and over again, how I was wronged, and that it should not have happened - - and in the meantime the real world perpetrator is most likely totally ignorant of all this. It gets worse - I modify the memory of what happened - how I could have gotten even. I play the alternate reality in my head, how s/he would have reacted, what I would have done then ... All these things - that never happened. Any one else notices these things? Surely it is not just me ... Eckhardt Tolle wrote "The Power of Now", and also more recently "A New Earth" talking about how we do these things, holding on to grudges, playing roles (like victims) to satisfy our lower ego mind - play unprovoked attacks again and again - - and it has nothing to do with the reality that we are facing right now. No one is attacking us right now, we are all alone, facing a computer - pressing buttons. Comment as you see fit - I would like to know if anyone else have put these two books into active use -