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Okay, so I've been at the very least lied to. At most, I've been seriously betrayed. Which leads to an interesting question.
Letting this roll off my back is kind of out at the moment. Which leaves two alternatives--feeling hurt, and feeling enraged.
Thing is, since I've gone through clinical depression, I've hurt before. Hurt a lot, and for weeks on end. I'm sick and tired of feeling like that. Rage, on the other hand, rage is good. It doesn't leave you feeling powerful, and it can give you the strength to do acts of vengeance you wouldn't have thought yourself capable of. Of course, the argument is that you can easily go too far when enraged, but which is worse--feeling like you're evil, or feeling like someone walked over you?
Is there a better way to handle betrayal? I don't know. On my personal scale, it's perhaps the worst thing you can do to someone. Stealing is bad enough, but you steal from a friend, and you have no right to complain if said friend breaks your legs in return. Harsh, but still...you betrayed someone who trusted you?
Obviously, people don't "get back" at people who have betrayed them all that often. I think that's probably why those revenge stories are so appreciated. So what do people do in the real world? I suppose let it go...but how the hell do you just let it go?
Letting this roll off my back is kind of out at the moment. Which leaves two alternatives--feeling hurt, and feeling enraged.
Thing is, since I've gone through clinical depression, I've hurt before. Hurt a lot, and for weeks on end. I'm sick and tired of feeling like that. Rage, on the other hand, rage is good. It doesn't leave you feeling powerful, and it can give you the strength to do acts of vengeance you wouldn't have thought yourself capable of. Of course, the argument is that you can easily go too far when enraged, but which is worse--feeling like you're evil, or feeling like someone walked over you?
Is there a better way to handle betrayal? I don't know. On my personal scale, it's perhaps the worst thing you can do to someone. Stealing is bad enough, but you steal from a friend, and you have no right to complain if said friend breaks your legs in return. Harsh, but still...you betrayed someone who trusted you?
Obviously, people don't "get back" at people who have betrayed them all that often. I think that's probably why those revenge stories are so appreciated. So what do people do in the real world? I suppose let it go...but how the hell do you just let it go?