Vengeance

Vengeance...can be sweet. It is very similar to revenge, only revenge is the act of getting back at someone, and vengeance is twice as bad as that. I personally love vengeance, but one has to be careful with how they display their act of vengeance. The only instance where I like it is in a sport. When I am playing a sport, it is all fair game. Off the field, I am fine and patient with people, and I give very little support to vengeance. On the field...it is a completely different story. That is partly why I enjoy playing soccer is because I am competitive and enjoy competing. I like to beat people that have previously beat us in the season. It is a lot of fun. That is one way in which I am vengeful and one instance in which I enjoy it.

Some people (me included) can take vengeance too far. Sometimes I can get too competitive and things that should be fun, become not fun and I end up somewhat ruining it for myself. That is when you know that you have taken it too far. Also, when your main goal is to get revenge on someone, it usually comes back to hurt you more than the person that you were trying to get revenge on anyways. That is when people learn there lesson. In the story Moby Dick by Herman Melville the captain Ashab is out for revenge on the great sperm whale, Moby Dick. He wants to get back at him for making him lose his leg. Because of his pride, he endangers all of the sailors on board. They all end up dying except Ismael, the narrator of the story. That is a good example when your pride for vengence has gone too far and you need to take a step back and relook at the situation. Is getting revenge really worth it? Sometimes it is better to just forget about it and keep moving forward.