THE FUSE

It has been said that vengeance is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Every choice for payback is also a choice to coarsen our hearts. Since our hearts are inside us, they stay hardened not only toward others but toward ourselves. Retaliation is a form of suffering for both perpetrator and victim. An offender does something that leads to suffering in the victim. Then the victim reciprocates, and so the cycle of pain continues. Suffering becomes the cause and result of retaliation.