Inspiring Change Every Day with Grace
Burning Both Ends
Some wounds cut so deep that they leave more than scars. They leave anger and resentment in your heart. They invite a voice in your head that says, “They need to feel what I felt.” That thirst for revenge. That desire to balance the scales. Especially when you were the one who gave your all and got broken in return.
When trust was a gift they trampled. When silence was your only reward for all the times you chose peace. Of course, revenge starts to sound sweet; like closure, like justice, like the only way to take your power back.
Unfortunately, revenge rarely delivers what it promises. It feels powerful in the moment, but afterwards? There’s usually nothing but an even deeper hole inside. You don’t get peace, you just trade your pain for a different kind of heaviness, because in trying to hurt them, you lose a piece of yourself too.
Never forget, that there’s a thin line between wanting closure and wanting control. Between demanding justice and becoming the villain in someone else’s story.
Yes, they were wrong. Yes, they should’ve apologised. But now you’re spending energy plotting responses, thinking of petty comebacks, rehearsing what you’ll say the next time they slip. And somewhere in all of that, your healing gets stuck. You can’t truly move on while dragging that weight around.
Peace is harder; it feels unfair at first like letting them off the hook. But peace is about you, not them. Choosing peace doesn’t mean forgetting. It means refusing to let what they did control your next chapter.
It means letting the wound close, even if they never say sorry. It’s choosing your sanity over your spite. Because sometimes, the best revenge is simply living free unbothered, unbitter, and uninterested in proving anything.
There are people out there who live off the drama. Who stay alive through conflict. Don’t let them write your script. Don’t mirror the same energy that broke you. Show them you can walk away with grace. That you can hurt and still choose healing. That you can be angry, but still act in love towards yourself.
And maybe you’re not there yet. That’s okay too. Maybe you’re still seething, still hoping they get a taste of their poison. But let me ask you, if revenge gave you everything you wanted…would it truly make you feel better? Or would it just make you more like the one who hurt you?
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