It’s been said that revenge is a dish best-served cold, meaning it’s more satisfying to get back at someone not directly after you’ve been wronged, but at a time that makes it most soul-destroying to the transgressor.
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High school bullies are the worst, but this teen figured out a way to anonymously get back at her own
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After years of harassment, the tormented teen stumbled upon a sneaky way to punish her bully
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She found herself being the last person in class at the end of one day and noticed her bully’s end-of-year folder lying unattended
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Without a second thought, she quickly snuck the folder into her bag and made a hasty exit
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Once she was clear of the school, she dumped the documents in a dumpster behind Starbucks, forcing the bully to fail the course and spend his holiday in summer school
She explains that one of the boys in the class was an absolutejerk, never missing an opportunity to call her names, deride her appearance, make her the butt of jokes, spit in her hair, trip her up, belittle her work, and generally make her life a living hell of unending torment.
OP goes on to share with her readers that, as the end of the semester approached, with graduation mere weeks away, the class had a huge final coming up—a folder that needed to contain every last piece of work the students had completed over the year. Absent work would result in deducted points and no work—afail.
Ever taken revenge on someone who did you wrong? How did it feel? Good or bad? Did you do it fast, or bide your time? And why do we, as humans, take revenge? We went looking for answers.
According to Kushner, in certain cultures, a need for revenge is borne out of public shame, while in individualistic cultures, vengeance is pursued when we believe ourselves or our rights have been dismantled or ignored. In societies that place a high value on collective identity, revenge can be kindled in response to the mistreatment of someone in our tribe or group.
In his article forForbes, Mark Travers reports that a newstudypublished in theJournal of Personality and Social Psychologyweighs the benefits of forgiveness against revenge in repairing one’s sense of self after a dehumanizing or victimizing experience. It’s well worth checking out if you’re holding onto thoughts of getting your own but pondering letting it go, too.
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