“The monks used to say that revenge is like a two-headed rat viper. While you watch your enemy go down, you’re being poisoned yourself.” A famous line from one of the greatest cartoons, Avatar: The Last Airbender, tells an interesting perspective about the idea of vengeance. Revenge is imposed when someone is mourning, in pain, sad. Life has thrown something at that person, doing a great number on him. However, he isn’t his full self when he seeks revenge. Like Aang, the main character of the story, says, revenge will hurt as much as it has been inflicted. The person in pain will do everything and nothing at the same time when he tries to avenge someone or something. He will not eat or sleep until he has reached his goal. But he will keep on looking, searching for the something that caused him pain. He affects not just himself in this but other people as well. Vengeance affects several people. It affects the person who wants revenge and the people around that person. It changes people, hurting himself and the people around him, drawing him closer to more misery and drawing him further away from his loved ones. Friends, family, close ones to him, will notice a change in behavior and they will try to help, but he will push them away because he believes that he has to do this, to take revenge, in order to be at peace. In the end, it will make him question whether it was worth it; the pain leading to vengeance or the pain resulting from vengeance. And that is something he is going to have to deal with if he wishes to continue living in peace.