REVENGE

‘Man by nature is a social and political animal’, said Aristotle. Man cannot lead his life in isolation. He has to depend on the society for his development and other basic needs. When many people live together, quarrels do arise and fights do take place. Individuals differ from one another as defined by Psychology- a study of Human Behaviour. Some individuals take the quarrels and fights so seriously that they think that a quarrel has lowered their pride and decide to take revenge.

    “Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils”- So says Milton. Revenge is an act of passion and often makes matters worse. Sometimes revenge continues for decades. Revenge never bears a sweet fruit or gives satisfaction to anyone. Revenge always destroys everything and everyone, who involve in it. Francis Bacon well defined Revenge in his Essays of Revenge, saying that “Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more mans’ nature runs to, the more ought to law to weed it out.” Revenge exists to show ones power, to begin with. Revenge is an act of wildness but I wonder why human beings want to take revenge!

    The only solutions are forgiveness or even better to forget. If you forgive your enemy’s doing instead of avenging it, he will be ashamed of what he has done and you will have a spiritual victory over him! Forgiveness is the noblest revenge. We should not forget that we pray to god to forgive us from our sins, which is even more a reason to forgive others’ mistakes.

              ARTICLE SUBMITTED BY :  MANOJ  I.  JAIN

                                                                1^st B. A. (PJOE)