History is like truth.  We may not like it, but it is a force to be reckoned with.  When we seek to delete it,  act like it never happened … we also loose the ability to learn from it. 

Pay back scratches an itch deep inside somewhere but creates a clear gap in understanding … prolonging the healing process.  Humility and forgiveness are not for the faint hearted.

Without humility, there is no real learning. Just continuation of defense and fighting.  The planting of more ill sown seeds which will require us to go back and repeat a cycle doomed to play its self out over and over again.