Have you spent time and energy into trying to affect someone negatively? Then you most definitely have been blatantly giving them a lot of power. What kind of power you ask? The power to single handedly trigger mood swings in you just by leading a good life. The power to make you feel miserable in having failed to do what they, ironically, have done to you.
Most of the time, they might not even have directly harmed you. It is what they call jealousy these days. They call it being bad ass and sassy. They call it winning when you’re clearly just trying to convince yourself.
If they do get affected, boy oh boy, how you gleam in victory. What a wonderful feeling having successfully attained some sort of superiority in bringing someone else down. How you bask in the glory of some temporary self satisfaction you attain. Did no one ever tell you that it’s going to wear out? That when one person leaves, you’ll find someone new to hate? Or rather the question should be, when will you realize that the problem is not with them but with YOU?
While we’re at it, I shall give you a glimpse of the other side. Mainly of those who do not get affected by other’s attempt at bringing them down. You look pathetic to them. They see your antics and laugh. They would probably, at some cases, share it with a close friend or loved one. What happens after that you ask? After that they forget and move on with their lives. Your name would spark laughter rather than sadness or anger or whatever you aimed for.
The term “bring them down” itself should make you aware of what you’re doing. You are infact bringing someone you thought to be higher than you down to your level. You see yourself so lowly that you uplift yourself by bringing someone down. Oh sweetheart, all you’re doing is making it very obvious that you have issues. When you sometimes portray superiority, you indirectly show that you do not see highly of yourself.
The way you treat people show your character, not theirs. Just because you put yourself up on high stakes does not make you someone great. The ability to forgive, forget and move on in life and waft of kindness and humility, that makes one a good person. What makes people great is for God to judge.
Let me end this rant by telling you that proclaiming that the earth is flat will not make it flat. The fact would still remain that the earth is round. It just makes you foolish and ignorant regardless of how many people believe you. The same basic principle applies to all situations.
