Story: Revenge's Reality

A simple mistake in a simple surgery led to the demise of the grandma of a young girl in high school. The surgeon did not see the fault in his mistake and did not bother to apologize for the girl’s loss. With great determination the girl vowed to make him pay and apologize for the pain that he had caused her. She thought the best way to attack him was to first become a surgeon, that way she could attack him with a voice.

 (A Justice Balance)

Over the course of the next 13 years she was able to become a successful surgeon. She began to plan out her revenge.

“I’ll make you suffer for what you did by always staying close as a constant reminder and I’ll watch you fall apart.”

However, it didn’t go as she had planned. No matter how much she pursued this goal of hers, it just seemed as if luck wasn’t on her side. The people around her whom she love began to become collateral damage. Although she didn’t want to dishonor her grandma, she felt as if the best she could do in her situation was to step back. She began to accept the fact that she might never receive the apology she so hoped for.

Then, things started to take a different turn. The very person who treated her sick grandmother now needed treatment. At first she was set on not agreeing to perform the surgery. As time went by, she began to once again remember who she really was, a doctor. She set their differences aside and became determined to save him as that was her duty as a doctor. She succeeded in her task and received something from the person that she could have never imagined,

“Thank you”.

Although she didn’t get the apology she had worked so hard to obtain, in the end she had gained something much bigger, sincerity.

The scars which you hold on so tightly to may be the very thing that’s stopping you from obtaining what you truly strive for.

Author's Note: In the original fable, the author spoke of how "Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten". It starts out with the son of a countryman being bit by a serpent. unfortunately the son died so the father set out to seek revenge on behalf of his son. He cut off the tail of the serpent. However that seemed to cause him more trouble than it was worth. The serpent began to cause harm to the father therefore causing him a detrimental loss. The father tried reconciling with the serpent but it was of no use. I took the theme of revenge from the story and incorporated it into my own story. I wanted to demonstrate how revenge isn't always the path that will lead us to happiness like we think it will. I wanted to demonstrate the reality of revenge, hence the name. 

Bibliography. "The  Man and The Serpent",  from The fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs. Web Source. 

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