There’s hardly any elbow room in that tiny gap between justice and vengeance, but they aren’t the same thing. One craves restoration. It seeks to repair a breach. To rejoin the jagged edges where corruption made a merciless tear.
The other seeks the momentary satisfaction of being right.
Tempting as it is to let my sense of worth teeter precariously on the one-upping of That Guy, I will not have a life driven consumed by the blind, unproductive venom of vengeance. I simply will not have it.
Because that isn’t a life.
The day is coming when I will know how to truly fight this pretty little devil. Until then, I simply have to put my wild imagination to bed, and let go of the need to prove myself a good girl.
How do you draw the line between vengeance and justice?
Indy
Thank you for this. My heart cries “yes!” to all you say in this piece.
It’s very simple: Vengeance is exacted by an individual, while Justice is served by something bigger (live, karma, God, Universe, take your pick). But while vengeance is much faster, Justice is longer lasting.
You must have faith that “What goes around comes around”.
This is not some subtle way of getting revenge. This is simply a way of giving vengeance to the one to whom it belongs and that’s God.