cyanocitta-blattidae:

Making the people who hurt you suffer is only a temporary pleasure. A quick emotional release that only lasts for so long and then plunges you into a deeper, darker hole. You don’t want to be considered a monster, prove that you’re not. Becoming a “monster” and making them suffer only proves they’re right. It gives them evidence to use against you to people who don’t even know you. Making your problem with stranger hate spread more and more. You don’t want them to be right, don’t consider them important. Fuck them. You know who is important? You.

Not giving them what they want not only gives you a patience strengthening, but a boost of maturity and a calmer handling of stressful situations. It makes you stronger. Giving them what they want? Getting that temporary boost by making them suffer? It makes you weaker. Paranoid even. Which makes you even more vulnerable to their and others attacks in the future.

The question is, Why become a monster when you can become a god?