Greetings!
The saying that two wrongs doesn't make a right is a deep saying thoughtfully brought to us humans as a guide so that we would not in any way do wrong to those that have wronged us, or perhaps, transfer aggression to those that are less concerned about our travail or pains.
Having said this, I would like to respond to the topic of the prompt before me which is all about, “circle of pain.”
One thing I have got to know about life is that, there's no way we would not be offended in life most especially by those people we called our loved ones. Aside from them, others too offend us and one thing about being offended is that it comes with pain most especially if it comes from unexpected quarters which in most cases are from our friends and family.
However, being offended is not a crime to me as it's normal to be offended, but trying to retaliate back to the person who offended us is one thing i would consider as not too good as two wrongs would never make a right as i have stated above.
So, if offended, I would only make sure I distance myself from such a person that inflicted the pain on me rather than taking revenge or retaliating the offence from the person that offended me.
Also, I have seen people transferring aggression to those that are innocent of the offence committed to them by their offenders. Although, I know how painful some wickedness done to us might be, but now transferring to an innocent party is uncalled for.
Some time ago, a teacher at my place of work which is a secondary school came to school and while teaching in the class, one of the students misbehaved and instead of this teacher exercising patience in punishing the students, she made sure she transferred the aggression she was bringing from home to beating the student to coma and she was later held responsible for what happened and she footed all the hospital bills of the students.
Thank God the student was brought back to life. Had it been he was not brought back to life, maybe the teacher would rusted in the prison by now.
So, one thing that we must be cognizant of is that, people would always step on our toes and cause us pain, but when this happens we should not make it a chain of circle as two wrongs would not make a right.
I have been offended on so many occasions, but I have not in any way retaliated or transferred aggression from the pain to anybody and the reason being that, I see no gain in taking revenge as taking revenge would only aggravate and worsen the situation and aside from that, evil would not even cease from among we human.
So, in most cases, whenever I'm offended, I always make sure I discard the evil thoughts of retaliation in me and this has been helping knowing fully well that if I should retaliate and take law into my hands, I would be held responsible for the outcome of my actions.
In conclusion, when we retaliate or transfer aggression of the pain inflicted on us to others, we should know that we are not only harming others but ourselves who in turn would be responsible for our actions and inactions.
This is my entry to the week 185, edition 01 of the weekly Featured contest in the Hive Learners community.
Thanks for reading.
Picture is Ai generated.