How we see things..

In a conversation early this morning I learned something..

I learned that maybe I could be wrong. Maybe, just maybe.. I could be. During this conversation and all it entailed, the things explained to me struck a nerve. I felt what was being explained, I could envision that person's anguish.. fear. So, instinctively my reaction to people ill treated is I wish something equally as awful upon the people who deliver the pain. The more and more I thought about it, as more things were explained.. it shifted. Shifting to the hope of remorse through force, or a barrage of things flooded to them.. before they leave this world. In a sense.. a final measure to show a person with no regard for anyone other then themselves, or their own selfish needs their years of devotion to punishing others. When the concept of the afterlife was brought up to me.. about their suffering in it.. I didn't falter. Stayed with the same ideas. The amazing thing is.. The person.. The actual person telling me this whole scenario, watching it first hand.. experiencing it.. Was still able to want nothing ill upon someone. After all that..

Amazing really... Here I am, thinking in my mind that people of that nature deserve some final act of punishment. Something to finalize their end, in a way.. finalize it by returning one act of pain for years of it. But.. I am wrong. So horribly wrong. All thinking like mine does, is just continue the cycle. In the end no one wants to have what happened to them happen to anyone else...

From another view.. Why bother with one sweeping act. They lived their lives as themselves, not knowing anything other then their self indulgent ways. And that in itself.. is punishment enough.

Thank you for opening my eyes.. I didn't realize they were closed..