Think twice before embarking on revenge

Good day, amazing people of the Hive Blockchain. Welcome back to my blog. It is another edition in the #hiveghana community. I am so delighted to participate in this week's prompts. Have you ever been in a situation where you were so hurt that you decided to take revenge? What happened? Did you go through with it?

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One thing about life is you must be hurt by people no matter how nice you are or how careful you may be; when it comes to humans, they must hurt you. People that I have always been nice to, even people that I offered a helping hand to, have really hurt me badly. Most times I will always ask myself, 'Why do I keep meeting people who always hurt me?' Whenever I think about it, I always have sleepless nights due to how painfully I have been hurt by people.

When it comes to taking revenge, I remove emotions. That doesn’t mean I will be wicked when carrying out my revenge. Whenever I am carrying out revenge, I just want the person who hurt me to wear the same shoe with me. So that the person will feel the pain I passed through when I was hurt.

I lost my dad when I was still in school. During that period, I didn’t have any money to take care of my sick dad. Life was really hard for me as a student who depended on her dad to someone who was looking for money to save my dad. My dad's brother was wealthy; he had all the money to assist us with my dad's treatment, but he refused every day. I would go to his house crying for him to save my dad, but he was not moved by my tears nor that of my family.

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My mom, I and my siblings try our best to save my dad, but our effort was nothing. On the fateful day I lost my dad because of money, knowing fully well that I have an uncle who could have saved my dad. That was the very day I swore that I would get revenge even if it is the last thing I do before I die. The moment my dad gave up to the post, I hated my uncle with everything in me, waiting patiently for my own revenge.

After some years I lost my dad; he was involved in a car accident. His condition was bad; the hospital kept booking him operation after operation. At one point there was no money to keep taking care of him. Our elder brother called me, saying that our uncle called him begging and asking for forgiveness and that he will be sending some money for me to go to the hospital to sort my uncle's bills.

Before an hour the money entered my account. The long-awaited revenge I have been waiting for is here. As the money entered my account, I used it to stock up our house; the remaining I put in my business. Every month my elder will send me money for our uncle to keep up, which I use for myself for one day. I never visited the hospital. According to the people that always visit, my uncle's situation is very bad; most times he sends people to come and beg me to forgive him. Each time I see those people, I am always hurt because this is the same person I begged years ago to help my sick dad.

What made me change my mind?

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One faithful day I went to church. From my priest's preaching I was so moved, and I felt bad that I allowed my thoughts of revenge to cloud my heart and my mind. That same night my dead father appeared to me in my dream, begging me to forgive the brother. Waking up from sleep, I decided to let go of the revenge. First thing in the morning, I dressed up and went to the hospital.m

to pay the hospital so that they will commence treatment. I also paid off the outside bills; he owns the hospital.

As much as we will want to revenge people who hurt us, on second thought, it is not the best thing to do. Instead of revenge, leave everything for God because, in most cases, at the point of seeking revenge, you will turn into a bad person.

This is my entry on the ongoing weekly prompts #hiveghana topic. Have you ever been in a situation where you were so hurt that you decided to take revenge? What happened? Did you go through with it?

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