Equivilent Exchange

Jun 01, 2008 04:57


Equivilent Exchange is the principle that everything in life comes at an equal but opposite price. Because I hate it when people think they're better than someone else simply because they don't like the "click" I explained this cold hard fact of life to someone today. The fact of the matter was that whether you walk around in a trench coat, where a polo shirt, waste your money on a car, or give out to starving children, we are all the same people and are all selfishly looking for our own happiness in the world. I could tell that she wasn't getting it and wasn't the type of person that could get someone like me; which is fine because that was likely the only time I'd ever have to deal with her glaring. But, that's not the point of this post, the point is that because of my belief in equivilent exchange I said to her that I hold no grudges against the people that used my happiness as the price for their own happiness in their life. I'm pretty sure that this is true but, now I wonder if I'm right to feel this way.

If someone wrongs you should you not be angry with them? When someone harms you should you not harm them back? One would tell me, "An eye for an eye and the world goes blind." We would all get lost in our search for revenge if we all just got angry and attacked each other for the wrongs done to us and the ways we wrong each other so revenge is bad... right? Revenge makes us feel good, it gives us purpose, it gives closure, and it helps us stay strong in times of desperation. I know, I've been there. But now, mayhaps because I'm older, revenge doesn't seem as meaningful. It's easier now to just let things go. By all means it is not easy to forget but to fogive? Maybe that is what I'm doing, perhaps I'm genuienly learning to forgive people for their trespasses against me.

On the other hand it's five in the morning, I had a long night, and I'm feeling quite lonely. I'm probably just dillerius with over thinking things and not thinking in my "normal" mindset. After all, if I'm not a scornful, hating, introverted, bastard\asshole then what am I?
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