One gentleman was in huge depression. His brother cheated him in business and he had spent 10 years of his life taking revenge and destroying his brother back. He confessed that he felt, he would feel very happy by doing so and he would attain peace. So my next question was, did he?
He started crying and said that initially, he felt so as he was feeling it was all justified. he made sure, his brother did not get any funding, he broke all his customers but one day, he saw his brother’s children in rags. They were wearing torn clothes and he got to know that their school fee was also not paid. He realized that while taking revenge from his brother, he deprived his kids of their future. He tried justifying that it is their destiny etc but he was feeling the burden as he had caused it. He also shared that he thought that his brother should pay back but then he realized in doing all these things he lost his precious 10 years. In those 10 years, he also did not do anything for himself. If he would have spent those 10 years on creating his life, he would have been at a different level in life and his brother would have been on his own. It should have been God’s decision or a call of time to take action. Rather than him taking everything in his hands.
His brother suffered which he wanted but he was suffering along. Someone else’s suffering can never give us happiness. I agree that people do bad to us many times and this is how this world is. We have certain good people and certain bad people. We can never tell, who is a friend and who is an enemy. We get all kinds of experiences. But what we have to see, are we learning from that or are we stuck with them? If we get stuck like with a feeling of revenge then we are harming ourselves more than the other person. They anyway will face their own karma. We are no judge of when and how.
What we can do is, focus on creating on life and how we can make this world a better place. Not to mention, our focus on negativity, will attract further negativity only in life. So do good and have good.
