Another Round of Deep Reflections Through the Lens of Nature

The overall goal of social consequences for behavior says much about the person who desires them. If justice is sought, two wrongs cannot make a right, and two deaths cannot bring back a life. Two wounds cannot heal a heart.

We bind our soul when we seek justice not for ourselves but to protect the future and community. When we focus on responding to our own injustice, we walk closely to vengeance.

The desire for vengeance may seem as though it will remove the pain from our heart, but the pain does not cease to exist; it is merely passed on to someone else, as if we handed them a dagger, where it is honed and incubated until, once more, it is plunged into an enemy’s heart, like the weapon it is.

Vengeance, though certain to bring a reckoning, will never reconcile the pain in one’s soul.