Peace Is Priceless

I don't need revenge. I used to think I did. I used to imagine the day...but it didn't made sense when life would finally catch up to you. The day you'd feel what I felt. The day the scales would balance. The day I'd win the challenge --- But age has a funny way of changing what victory looks like day by day. --- Because revenge keeps me connected to the very thing I'm trying to heal from not affected Every angry thought. Every sleepless fought. Every conversation I replay in my head. Every imaginary argument feels like lead I somehow still lose...no matter which way I choose --- That's not freedom. That's a prison with invisible bars. And I was the one holding the key of scars. --- So I stopped chasing revenge. Not because you deserved mercy. Not because what happened didn't matter. And certainly not because I forgot the latter. --- I chose distance. --- Distance gave me room to breathe. Room to think. Room to remember who I was before the hurt moved in with grieve. --- Distance gave me silence. And in that silence I found something far more valuable than revenge. --- Peace. --- The kind of peace that doesn't need an apology as ease. Doesn't need justice. Doesn't need closure. Because it no longer depends on someone else's actions...holding my composure. --- It depends on me. And God. --- I learned to let Him carry what was crushing me. To place it in His hands far stronger than mine...I'll be fine. To stop trying to be judge, jury, and executioner. --- And do you know one of the hardest pills some people ever swallow? --- Realizing their actions no longer control your emotions makes them hollow. --- That they no longer have the power to ruin your morning. Destroy your mood without warning. Steal your sleep. Or occupy your thoughts making it steep. --- You became a chapter. Not the whole story of capture. --- So while revenge may sound sweet in theory... Peace is priceless holding it dearly. --- And one day you'll wake up and realize you haven't thought about them for weeks. Maybe months. Maybe years. --- Not because they changed. Not because they apologized. Not because they suffered but realized. --- But because you healed. --- And that's when you'll understand... The greatest revenge was never revenge at all. It was finding peace without it your soul can't rest at ease. 🎤 Pinoks Vibes Songs for the bruised, Not the perfect.