A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an antiquated couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through hardships and problems. A smile flitted across your face, but I could tell your mind was giving you no peace. One minute you were looking at the flowers as though they were out to attack you, and the next you were plunged into thought. The ancient and Universal desire to get even with those who have betrayed us is one of the most fundamental and potent of human passions. Despite the fundamental nature of the human urge to retaliate, however, revenge is generally regarded as unhealthy and signifying some kind of mentally unwell mind. Revenge has also fallen out of our vocabulary, as if modern humanity were embarrassed by its melodrama. There is such a thing as a man being pious and honest, in the private way; and there is such a thing as public virtue. A live dog is better than a dead lion. At the age of 27-years-old, a woman concocted and boiled a brew of floor cleaner, disinfectant, bleach, candle wax, and house, and poured it over her boyfriend’s penis as he slept because he wanted to break up with her, now she is severing seven years in prison. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 7

 Certainly, a few admit to plotting revenge much like the rap artist Drake in his song Summer Sixteen, “Looking for revenge all Summer sixteen. Playing dirty, not clean. Out front of Four Seasons looking like a damn football team, all in the same thing, all representing one thing. Looking for revenge. To do what you could not do. Tell Obama my verses are just like the whips (cars) that he in, they are bulletproof,” although some will freely admit to exacting revenge on their enemies. However, surprisingly, very little psychological research has focused on revenge, which is defined as the infliction of harm in return for perceived wrong. In primitive times, people coped with injustice through revenge; indeed, for many peoples, including the ancient Greeks, revenge was equated with justice. The school of thought was: When we are stuck without a reason, we should strike back again and very hard. However, if men cannot stand before the sentence of men, what will they do with the sentence of God? At various times in history it was even considered acceptable to take revenge against inanimate objects, like trees, that were perceived to have harmed an individual or that you were jealous of. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 7

 One man even took revenge on another man by sending someone to his house, while he was at work and during the Summer to cut branches off of his Cyprus trees to dry them out so they would die, and ripped a rare tree out of the ground and stuck in it a small pot of water. He also told the man he was going to “block him in,” which means have him arrested and put in a prison cell block because the man refused to supply him with anymore free labor. So the perpetrator then went back to the victim’s house and built a wood barrier, which resembles a planter box around the fence and left it unfinished. And took advantage of the victim’s vulnerable mother by convincing her she needed a camera system, and simply put holes and the wall and hacked into the electrical wires and strung them across the exterior of the wall, leaving them exposed, and left the job unfinished, which significantly reduced the value of the house because appraisers thing the property now has an electrical problem and could potentially be a fire trap because the work was clearly done by an unprofessional contractor. Similarly, parents would frequently “punish” inanimate objects on behalf of their hurt children (witnesses, for example, parents who console a toddler who has stumbled into a table by “smacking the table and informing it of its “naughtiness”).  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 7

I do not want to fake my death, tell them lies, all that, disappear leaving a space where I was. I–. There are things I want to know from them. What motivates betrayed individuals to take revenge on their betrayers? Clearly, one important motive is that revenge helps “even the scores” between the two parties. In this sense, revenge and guilt are functionally similar in that both help to share the pain—causing one’s betrayer to suffer makes one feel better. For instance, in one cause study, a woman forced a man into a relationship with her by telling him that she would report that he physically forced her to have intercourse with her. After he broke up with, she stole a condom out of the trash that he has used with another woman, abused herself, and tried to get pregnant with the contents. Then she broke into his house and cut his leather sofa, bleached and shredded all of his clothes, then told people that they were engaged to get married because he had moved on. This, she said, “Made her feel much better,” because they were “Madly in love.” However, she also talked in some detail of her fervent wish and intention to more than simply kill him. She wanted hit to suffer the way in which she had suffered, i.e., “feeling alone, frightened, and humiliated.” #RyanPhillippe 4 of 7

Again, this case points to the strong links between humiliation, rejection, and revenge that have been noted by serval researchers. However, she did not stop there. The young lady went on to tell that man that “he would never see his son again,” whom she was deeply jealous of and told the World that the mother of his children, former wife, who is one of the most famous celebrities in the World was, “Not invited to our wedding because I do not want her to overshadow it.” Not to mention that the young late literally took art imitating life to a new level. She had become obsessed with the role that the man’s former wife played in a movie, where she was an Ivy League law student, and became a lawyer. The obsessed enrolled at an Ivy League university and allegedly graduated from law school this Summer Sixteen. Given that humiliation inflicts such a deep and painful injury to a person’s self-esteem and social status, taking revenge might well be regarded as a powerful means of restoring dignity and regaining some control over the situation. With respect to actual revenge behaviors, there is no limit to human inventiveness, from everyday acts of vindictiveness (e.g., being unhelpful, gossiping), to torture, physically forcing one into a sexual act, or mass murder. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 7

People generally have some sympathy for the vengeful behaviors of rejected lovers, certainly, one famous case inspired much public amusement, if not sympathy, concerned a college student, whose former partner left her for someone else, and she cut four inches off the sleeves of all his suits, busted out the windows on his BMW, cut the tires, broke out the windows, scratched the paint, and left stones in the car; and gave away his vintage wine collection to local villagers in a project based high rise building. Usually, revenge is not so dramatic, but when people are allowed to circumvent the law, they can get away with terrorizing others. Fantasies of revenge can be lurid.  For instance, in a study of students’ experiences of desiring revenge, we have found vivid thoughts of vengeance for erotic unfaithfulness, your lover wrestling in the sheets with someone else is likely to drive you insane with just the thought. Indiscretions, having been slighted, being cheated on. Fortunately, students’ fantasies tended to far outweigh vengeful actions, even so, a number of acts were reported, including the destruction of cherished possession, their theft of antique pictures, public humiliation, and gossip. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 7

No person can live happily with another simply upon esteem. The impulse to take revenge in response to a betrayal, then, is undoubtedly powerful and profoundly human; but actually taking revenge can cause problems, especially when the act of revenge itself constitutes a relational betrayal that encourages further revenge when reciprocation matches the behavior of the other party or parties after an initial effort is made to cooperate. You do to them what they did to you in the previous move. The glowing, dream-World sacrificial virgin ends up being physically assaulted, choked while driving, comes to the hospital for a long string of blood tests and x-rays, and is in intensive therapy, but no one knows why the young man is suffering so much all of the sudden. He looked at me. No flaw remained. All of those bruises, they were gone, as I knew they would be. However, I must confess (to you) that I have been a little unsure that he would live. She was so weak, so worked over, so torn. However, the cells had been there, hiding, waiting for the renewal. And the Blood had found them and re-created him. God will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our LORD Christ. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 7