You have the power to be an avenger. The question is – what for?

You can avenge justice. Fight for truth when it’s been trampled. Stand up for people who’ve been wronged. Channel your outrage into accountability, your anger into advocacy. This kind of avenging can exhaust you, yes, but it doesn’t hurt or break you. Your body recognizes righteous action. You sleep well. You’re able to look people in the eye. Stand tall and proud.

Or you can avenge your ego. Protect your lies at all costs. Punish anyone who threatens to expose you. I’ve watched someone caught in a situation quit their job rather than own their mistake. No honesty. No accountability. Just scorched earth, playing victim out loud, and putting on fake ethics. They became an avenger against truth itself, willing to destroy their own professional life to avoid facing the facts of what they’d done.

The consequences of each path aren’t abstract. Your body keeps score.

Righteous exhaustion heals. The poison of protecting lies? That seeps into your bones. It disrupts your sleep. It fractures your relationships and reputation. It requires you to fragment yourself – one face here, another there, constantly monitoring which version of your story you told to whom and consistently worried if others know what you did as you pass them in the street, a store, or even talk to them. Do they know? Fear runs you.

At the end of the day, you live with yourself. You face a mirror.

When you’ve fought for something larger than yourself, you see pride. Fatigue, perhaps, but clean fatigue. You’ve lived one way – authentically, with integrity.

When you’ve fought only to protect your ego, to punish those who saw through you? That reflection carries shame you can’t scrub away. The truth always is present.

You get to choose which avenger you become.

Choose wisely. Your body, your relationships, and your soul are watching.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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