Do you really tend to make revenge to the person who have done wrong to you?

Pasay, Philippines
May 26, 2011 4:47am CST
Are you kind of a person who is fond of making revenge when a person has done really wrong towards you? Can you cite an experience? How do you feel when you have done your revenge towards the person you dislike? Isn't that you know there will be the bad karma but how come you still want to make revenge towards the person? How does it benefit to you when you did the revenge?
15 responses
@sanijas83 (270)
• Latvia
26 May 11
God teaches people compassion and forgiveness. I have some bad experience, some things I cannot forgive. I should just ignore the people who did not treat my relatives kindly. Do I have rights to punish them? There is nothing for it but to wait until the day when the life will treat them badly. I am afraid I harmed myself when I had some revengeful thoughts.
• Pasay, Philippines
3 Aug 11
Good thing that is your mentality. Because in my case even I have thought of that but still I had this feeling of giving revenge to others to feel me better.
• Latvia
5 Aug 11
I understand. There are things that cannot be forgiven. I do not know if I will ever forgive something bad done to my relatives.
• Southend-On-Sea, England
26 Jul 11
I don't think revenge is a good idea, as it lowers you down to the person who's hurt you's level. However, that doesn't mean to say we should accept bad behaviour from anyone.
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• Pasay, Philippines
6 Aug 11
Exactly the point it does not mean that they should abused our humility towards them. Of course we should not make revenge towards them but we have to give them a moral lesson of the wrong things they have done.
@xtine22 (200)
• Philippines
27 May 11
Not really. I will get annoyed, but I do believe in karma. Even if I don't do anything to a person who did something bad to me, his wrongdoings will be shot back at him/her. At least that's what I believe :)
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• Pasay, Philippines
6 Aug 11
I believe in karma as well because I've already witnessed that. I remember when my classmate have told me some angry words towards me to the extent that my friendship towards my friend have suffered or we weren't connected to each other anymore as a friend. Only to find out that almost many of our classmates has hatred against her something to do with the trust. They even attacked her so bad I mean by saying offensive words that hits her. That was the time that we have other activity inside the classroom then the teacher was not around. I was sleeping at that time inside the classroom I mean like a nap but then she approached me to go out of the classroom. When we were outside the classroom like we are just seating on the bench she cried so bad.
@wings143 (133)
• Philippines
27 May 11
yes and it depends on the gravity of the offenses they made..yeah there is a bad karma for that but oftentimes i am not the one who started the fire..i just put out their fire..
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• Pasay, Philippines
6 Aug 11
I am depending it on the situation as well and not at all that I am making revenge. There are times that I am letting it go but there are times that I don't want to tolerate it. I just want them to learn that they don't have the right to abuse my humility towards them. It is a moral lesson for other people on how to be careful with their actions towards me.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
12 Jun 11
hi, sometimes i tend to make revenge to the person who have done wrong to me,it because of my hurt feelings that i cant cope,but most of the time i just ignore it because i will pass it to the God,and God will do everything.
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• Pasay, Philippines
6 Aug 11
Thank you for being honest. Of course we are only human who were offended of what others did to us. Sometimes I believe that it is a moral lesson that others can't abuse us. Sometimes other people have thought that we are not suppose to fight for what is really right.
@didi13 (2926)
• Romania
5 Jul 11
Always, revenge will be an option, but not all people will do this. In this world there is no man who has not wanted to take revenge on someone at least once. But to avoid using this weapon to abstain from vengeance, must learn to know yourself, to trust that you can ignore human instincts bad to know how to abstain. That's why they say that revenge is fool weapon, as always people who will not know, to solve the problem calmly, who can not control will use revenge.
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• Pasay, Philippines
6 Aug 11
Ouch! I think that is me who can't control my anger that is why I really use my revenge as the thought that I will fight for my own. I am controlling myself on not to do on revenge but then I can't get rid of my mentality to fight and defend myself especially if I believe I am the right person.
@pepinho (117)
• Slovak Republic
26 May 11
Well I was thinking about revenge when my girlfriend cheated on me with her best friend. They both made mistake but I felt anger towards him.I wanted revenge but after some time I realized that it is absolutely useless and I don`t want to be the same bad guy like him. I regret sometimes that I didn`t do anything but maybe it is better this way. If I fulfilled my revenge I would feel better but just for a short time because I think I am too good person.
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• Pasay, Philippines
3 Aug 11
That is actually the common story. I can imagine that maybe they are really meant for each other since you have mentioned that your gf cheated on you with her best friend. I could imagine that there is something that you can't understand to each other that is way different with her best friend.
• United States
26 May 11
There ae plenty of times when I have wanted to get revenge on my boyfriend or some of my friends, but I know that it is not right and no matter how much revenge I get on them it still isnt going to solve the problem. It may make me feel better for the moment but afterwards Im still going to be mad at them. So I just live it to God and let him take care of those people for me. Its not my problem. And whenever someone knows that you are still mad at something they have done to you then thats letting them defeat you. So instead of being mad just look at them and say Im fine. Kill them with Kindness.
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• Pasay, Philippines
3 Aug 11
Too bad I can't still have that kind of mentality to throw the bread on them instead of throwing them the stones. My heart is not yet ready for a fact that I said to myself of being too tired of being good since many people are abusing it.
@Bellapop (1279)
26 May 11
I have never thought about revenge, there has been a lot of instances where people have done wrong to me and I have just thought that it was not worth spending more time dwelling on it unless I could have reasonably gotten something out of it from professional help. And anyway those have done wrong to others, even if I don't do anything to make them pay, I always think that something else or someone else will do something that's will make them pay anyway so I won't really need to do any of the dirty work!
• Pasay, Philippines
5 Aug 11
That is good job Bellapop. Always continue that kind of good mentality so that it won't harm yourself. Unlike in my case I have been always thinking of making revenge that I thought it could be helpful on my part.
• Philippines
26 May 11
Not really - unless the said person really wants to see the really bad side of me. I have a policy against people who rub me the wrong way - that is to ignore them and don't give them the satisfaction of having the upper hand with me or influencing me with their actions. I learned the hard way of being in the bad receiving end, so I don't push my luck in having bad karma on my way. Yes, I do think of vengeful thoughts like any person would but I never acted in them. I was taught not to lower myself with people who had nothing to do but cause misery to other people. With the help of time and other issues in my life, I tend to forget them and move on with my life. Like the a familiar song says, I have life to do.
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• Pasay, Philippines
3 Aug 11
I have thought of that as well but I haven't do that especially to my cousins who have tried to fight with me. But on the brighter side I have seen them or even heard on how they treated to each other as well as if they are truly best friends. The truth is they are always pointing out each other's faults and at the same time they are putting down to each other.
@Gaurav2d (29)
• India
26 May 11
life has a lot of things to be looked at and not only revenge ,if you think someone is taking revenge ,think a minute,because all activities and actions do not lead to revenge.
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• Pasay, Philippines
5 Aug 11
We always have to look for the brighter side of what is happening to us so that we would know on how to learn something especially when it comes to challenges.
• United States
26 May 11
yes, I'm a kind of person who tends to make revenge to people who have hurt me. the clearest example: the revenge that I'm still doing until now to an acquaintance who employed me in his office and treated me very bad. I still remember (and forever will remember) how he shouted at me with rude words and swore bad things to me, almost everyday. I know I did mistakes at work, but he should not insult me so bad like that. he even said bad things about my family members. what makes me feel stupid until now is: most of time I stayed quiet when he did it to me. I even accepted his insults, almost without any fights back. this bad memory makes me promise to my self that I will show to that person that I can fight him back now and I will not be quiet for every single rude word that he may say to me again next time. I have resigned from that job and we are geographically too far separated now. but I still hope someday I will meet him again, he will say rude words to me again, and he will be hurt, angry, surprised, and embarrassed when he see my painful fight back by that time. I think I need to do that to prove to my self that he can't treat me bad again and that I can fight him back, not just stay quiet like a stupid person before. now it's been more than one year since I resigned from that job, and I heard from some reliable people that he wanted me to come back work for him. I told them to tell him that I will not come back. sometimes I hope he will contact me again and say bad words again like before, to give me chance to do my revenge. I know revenge is a bad thing to do and it can hurt my self. but I think i really need to do this to prove to my self that I'm brave enough to stand for myself and to prove to him that he can't do that again to me now.
• Pasay, Philippines
6 Aug 11
Thank you very much for sharing your experience. I totally understand your feelings since we have experienced the same thing. Worst case the people who did that to me are my friends who abused my humility and for being too nice with them. I understand at times that you stayed quiet just because you ever thought that you are not in the position to say such things. Only to realized that he already crossed the line and you sacrificed for being quiet so that it could not make any trouble. But the worst thing here is that you are the one who is sacrificing. It happened to me when I was in college days, that I don't want to fight back with my friend for the sake of saving the friendship and I thought it will be alright if I am going to let it go. But then there was one day already that I can't control my anger already to the extent that I am not talking to her already. Our friendship was really inconsistent. I just really thought that I am the only one who has problems with her only to realized that my friends are having problems to her as well. I've already told her some hurtful words to her to the extent that she was totally offended. It took her time to change and now she realized that I can fight of what I believe is right. Another thing with my friend who became my former boss. When he establish the high risk business he pirated me as his assistant. So I affirm with his offer. During my stay for 2 months with him he was really arrogant to the extent of saying such things against me and attacking me personally which he didn't follow our agreement that there would be no personal attack but he did it. He wants me to feel that he is powerful, smart, and excellent. He used to give such advises that you ever thought he has the will to do the right thing with integrity. Only to find out that his company had failed due to lack of finances to the extent that he has no plans of paying us the salary. I really seek justice for 1 year that I even asked advises from Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Department of Labor and Employment, and in National Labor. Only to find out that my boss does not know about National Labor! O MY GOD! What a boss? So I really fought with him and argued a lot of times to the extent that he was given up. He gave my salary for about one year. The government agencies have told me that I can't do something about it already and we already lose the game because we have already signed the quit claims under his name. But then since I know there are rules that my friend does not know about I took advantage of his innocence by giving a threat that I will give demand letter if he won't be paying my salary. So he given up and at least I've already tried to prove it to him that I am going to fight of what is really right. And I am not a kind of person that will just keep quiet and let go the wrong things that he have done for me.
@original8 (107)
• Belgium
26 May 11
no i would not for that only leads to more angression and destruction in ones life i always say it as a wise men once said Love your enemies Do good to those who hate you Bless those who curse you Pray for those who mistreat you If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also
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• Pasay, Philippines
6 Aug 11
But what is your motivation of healing the anger inside your heart? How do you love your enemies? Are there any situation that you have forgiven those people who have offended you?
@mixyly (20)
• Philippines
26 May 11
Naturally, people has an inborn feeling called "Anger". I believe that everyone can feel hatred or get angry to others or even to a thing, a place and happenings. But I know that it depends on the person if she/he will take it and hide it inside his/her heart for a long time and to believe that someday she/he can do revenge or just forgive what happen and let the Lord do the punishment for you. No matter how serious or how brutal the situation is, you must learn to forgive and let the Lord do the rest. Don't let your anger kill your heart. Live life happily, I know it's not easy to forgive but the best thing you can do is to pray that God will heal everything and let Him give you justice.
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• Pasay, Philippines
6 Aug 11
What motivates you for not doing any revenge towards the person you dislike or you even hate?
• Philippines
26 May 11
Having revenge is pointless. it only deepens the wound and never resolves anything but continuously ignite the fury between both parties. We are all ONE, so when you hurt someone, you hurt also yourself, this idea is applicable with loving also. I did seek out revenge one and life was never peaceful until i decided to just stop having revenge and began showing compassion and forgiveness to myself and to that other person.
• Pasay, Philippines
3 Aug 11
Thanks for pointing it out. Maybe I shouldn't have that kind of mentality. I am really revengeful person and what you say is true that I am just hurting myself. Sometimes I just told myself that I am so tired for being good since other people are already abusing it.