Is revenge really all it's cracked up to be?
I think we want it to be, but the reality is different.
Lets take two extremes:
Tupac "Revenge is life's sweetest joy, next to getting pussy"
Or
a song in Spanish called, Odiame. (Hate me)
The song is about a man that is asking a woman he was involved with intimately to hate him. He would rather have the feeling of hate come from her then indifferance. Because one only hates what was once loved. And he cannot bear the thought that he wasnt loved at all.
Kinda sick and twisted, but that is the way the song goes. So for her to take revenge on him would only prove to him that there is still an emotion for him. They say that there is a thin line between love and hate.
So if she really wants to take "revenge" on him, her best move is to do nothing at all and let him suffer in his own self doubt.
Its actaully a pretty song:
Odiame por piedad yo te lo pido.
hate me, for mercy's sake, I beg you
Odiame sin medida ni clemencia
hate me without measure or clemency
odio quiero mas que indiferencia,
I want hate more than indifferance
porque el rencor quiere menos que el olvido.
because a grudge hurts less than being forgotton
(coro)
Si tu me odias quedare yo convencido
If you hate me I shall be convinced
que me amaste mi bien con insistencia.
That you once loved me with an insistance
Pero ten presente deacuedo a la expericiencia
But at the present moment drawing from experiance
que tan solo se odia lo querido
One only hates what was once loved.