August 17th, 2012

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” 
                                  
                                                  -Gandi                               

We all know the saying “ An Eye For An Eye ” . And of course some of us have used it. When someone does something to us, bother or annoy us. We decide to take the revenge, and fight back in our own way with our own rules. As we are the victim now, so we have to prove to  ourselves and to the others that we can fight back. Show them how strong we are. And it shouldn’t always be a fight with hands. It could also be an argument or a fight with words. So we always try to put an end to what the other person has done to us.

But then, I have read Gandhi’s  aphorism. And actually it stopped me and made me think and ask one very question. What if every single person in the whole world used this aphorism “An Eye For An Eye” , the whole world would be in a chaos. We will be living by “the  law of the jungle”  The survival of the strongest. And that is inhuman, we have brain to think and control our actions. That is the only thing that separates us from animals.

Taking the revenge doesn’t show how strong you are. Unfortunately it shows how weak you are. That's the only thing you use is your arms and your muscles. The real strong person, is who can control himself in anger. We are not angels, we all make mistakes and sins. And if brawled every person who was bad to us. We will not have anybody left to call a FRIEND. Tolerance is the strongest point we humankind has. All the creatures have only one power point which is their muscles, but we are the only creatures who have more than one, Tolerance, kindness and love.