Revenge... cold, sweet, laughable?

Hmmm.... I must admit that true revenge is most likely not a good thing and it serves no purpose.

Plotting revenge on the other hand tends to bleed away the feeling of betrayal over the wrongs or rights of a situation.

I've stopped bleeding, mourned and moved on.

My shrink would say that's a good thing. And it really is. I store the sad memories of the ordeal in the "lessens learned" file in my mind. I throw out the photos, I re-arrange the pictures on the walls. I sigh and wonder, "Why?"

I remember the beautiful things... I was humbled to have witnessed the scenery and phenomenas I did. Things that brought tears to my eyes and a sense of peace in my heart.

I was lucky to have the opportunity to travel to such a place... I took away so much... even more than it cost for having my heart broken.

There are the absolutes in life. Gravity works, the sun rises and sets, it rains, it snows.... and my heart will heal and move on. But that doesn't mean I won't ever find myself thinking the fleeting little thoughts of karma... and wondering if it has reached three yet...

All is what it appears to be. Or is it?

An Optical Illusion Of Sorts...

The sail boat seems relatively close, as does the other shoreline, trees and mountains. When in fact, (Because of the zoom lens) the sailboat is at the least ten to perhaps fifteen miles away and one can only speculate how many miles of water there is between the boat and the opposite shore. In reading some of the tourist information books, those mountains that seem so close could actually be well over 300 miles away! This serves to remind me that in the supposedly best of situations... all is not what it seems.

It also reminds me that there are two sayings I'm quite fond of, and they are quite apropos on this subject.

The first is, "What goes around comes around three times over."

The second? "Ain't karma a bitch!"