Causing more pain won't help to quell your own
Does it make you feel better? Does it lessen the pain that weighs heavy on your heart? Does it clear your head of a burden unknown to those around you?
Just now, you yelled at that man for bumping into you. His apology began before you started to yell. He did nothing wrong, yet still he was punished because you felt pain in which he had no part.
While I can understand being angry at the world and its inhabitants, forcing them into the role of target achieves nothing good. In the end, you're still angry. Still hurting in whatever way you were before, and now, so are they. Chances are, they'll act just the way you did, placing a target upon another's head and taking aim.
I-I didn't veiw it that way.
Hardly anyone observes a mountain the same way, but that doesn't change the fact that it's always there. Some see just a mountain and simply move on. Others will see what I consider to be the parts that bring out its true beauty.
That's alright, there's no shame in not knowing. Think of it like this, imagine a mountain, it can be any kind, even fictional if you fancy it. Now this mountain has been there for longer than any of us have, yet few truly know it. Many pass it each day, some stop and stare, but not all will notice the same things. One will see the trees scaling their impossibly steep sides just to reach better sun. One might view a goat climbing the rocks, or even a bird soaring high with its wings spread wide. But that's just it, they merely look, nothing more, nothing less. To truly understand the mountain's significance, you need to climb it yourself or, at the very least, collect stories from those who already have.
I'm confused as to how this relates to mountains?
That's good; confusion means you're learning something. What I'm trying to say is, you can observe something all you want, but unless you put in effort to learn more about it, you will only know what's on its surface. Just like the man, all that he knew was surface-level. He knew not why you were angry. All he knows is that you yelled at him for something so small, so insignificant. I'll bet he's now in as just a foul mood as you were. He might even yell at another as you yelled at him, put a target upon another inoccent soul, just as you put a target on him.
Causing harm to another for the pain you feel does nothing to help you heal. You can feel as much pain as you think necessary, but that doesn't mean others need to feel it as well.
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Quote that inspired this: "You can be mad but you cannot be mean"
I got it from Pinterest, it's a screenshot from a user named Heather Hurt, I'm unsure which platform they reside on.
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