misery loves revenge

I think most people have heard the phrase, “misery loves company.”  I know I have. Today I’d like to propose a new reimagined version, “Misery loves revenge”. What do you think?  Can we work with it? I know I can in a very socio sort of way. Let me tell you about my thought process here and maybe I can convince you to start a movement with me. Or at least to have a few laughs while exploring the concept.

So I had a difficult week this week. Well really, it’s been a hell of a month. But if I think back, not too hard because my brain will start melting, it’s more like a whole year of a situation that is finally coming to an end at the end of the month, but there are a few loose ends that are still burning.  You know, in the movies where someone commits a murder but someone saw them or someone knows something that could ruin the whole “getting away with the murder thing ?” It’s like they saw you buying the murder kit, duct tape, blue tarp, shovel, you get it and so in the movie they are like, “damn, now I got kill the Walmart girl who was the cashier when I bought the stuff, cause she looked at me funny when she was ringing me up.”

Now, let me pause for a second here, there was no murder, no Walmart girl and certainly no purchase of duct tape, blue tarp or shovel. This situation was much less menacing but probably in my socio mind just as dramatic.

There’s a guy and we thought he was a good guy but he really was a bad guy. And a girl but no, this is not a love story, more of a hate story.  So the guy took a bunch of people hostage, mentally, tormented them, emotionally, and did it in plain sight while lying about it the whole time.  Interesting? Maybe.  Wrong?  Totally. Is there a happy ending? Not yet.  Did the people get rescued? Yes. Are they safe? Sort of.  Plot twist here, he had an accomplice, the girl. The people knew about the accomplice and they thought, finally the villain is caught! Surely, they both will be punished.  The good guys came to rescue them. Yay!  We are saved. But no, it wasn’t over yet.

Are you invested in the story yet?  Well, I hope so because I am going to go on anyway.

So the accomplice turned the tables on the villain, flipped the script, one might say.  Well, I am saying it!  Suddenly the accomplice was also a victim. Wait, what?  What fresh hell is this the people thought? The accomplice was part of the plan.  The accomplice was more like the henchman of the villain.  How could the good guys who finally rescued the people think that the henchman was innocent?  Were they blind? Crazy? Or both? Well they did. Blame corporate America.

That’s the loose end, that’s the Walmart girl who knows something. She has to be killed, not IRL but she needs to go. So some of the people were talking about the situation and uttering how they needed to flee the village because of the not-so-innocent accomplice is still making their lives miserable. They were lamenting about the situation in a misery loves company kind of way.  They were still miserable. They were still sad. They had been dealing with this chaos for over a year. They were at the end of their rope.  They had bonded like a bunch of Stockholm Syndrome victims, except they don’t love their captor, his accomplice or at this point, the rescuers. They wanted to start a Patty Hearst support group.  They became an ad hoc Patty Hearst support group. They were demoralized, trying to solve the problem, but exhausted. Where do they go from here?

They refused to be victims. They bonded over their drama trauma and decided to take back their power. Misery might love company, but misery loves revenge so much more!  Ya, it does! Now the revenge plot is still happening, still forming and not quite done. But they wait and they watch and they will be ready. Because at the end of the day they are playing the long game. Winning a few battles, here and there, but waiting quietly for the right moments to come along.

“It’s not that I don’t play well with others…I just don’t play well with liars, cheaters, users, thieves, fakes, players, and a*holes!”

Stay tuned….

“My silence is not weakness but the beginning of my revenge.”