ThE RighT ThinG...

ThE RighT ThinG...

Sometimes its hard to do the right thing. Correction. Make it, ALWAYS hard to do the right thing. Especially so when you’ve been wronged. In such circumstances, when emotion is unstable, feelings hurt, rights violated, not many can think straight. Let alone decide on whats right or wrong. We focus on how to make ourselves feel better and more often than not, revenge always seems to be the best solution/answer. After all, revenge is sweet! But most people don’t realize (maybe they do but choose to ignore it anyway) that the sweetness of revenge is temporary but its bitter aftertaste, that’s almost never fail to come, thanks to certain thing called conscience, will be there to stay. Even if it does go away, it will be like a virus that infects and will make everything else bitter as well. Sort of like an epidemic and there’s no antibiotic strong enough to make it go away. As I was saying, it’s always hard to do the right thing. In other words, its hard to be nice. Especially when others has not been so nice to you. It’s just human nature. We’re not angels. Forgive and forget.. It’s a nice concept isn’t it? But honestly, how often does people do that, if any. Tit for tat, eye for eye; isn’t that what they always say. It’s a good concept too, don’t you think? But not if you are at the receiving end, that is.
Revenge is not only sweeter but easier. Just imagine, if someone were to slap you, I bet my bottom dollar that your first instinct is to slap them back. And I’m pretty sure that it would feel good too. In this situation, to be the better person would mean to just walk away. Yeah right… to do that is even harder than to figure out what life means.. (hmm..what’s that suppose to mean??) There is also that very fine line between being the better person and being a pushover or a doormat. To back out or walk-away or whatever does not mean that you lose.. or does it?
There’s a line in the movie Batman Begins that goes, “justice is about harmony, revenge is about you making yourself feel better”. People usually equate revenge with justice. And everybody knows justice is about fairness. But what is fairness? Is it fair that you be nice to someone whom had treated you badly? Isn’t it only fair that they be put through what they have put us through? But I guess, to be the better person does not always mean to be fair to ourselves but it’s simply because it is the right thing to do, no matter how much it hurts. Or how unfair it might seem.