A restaurateur speaks up publicly for what he thinks is right. The people who think he’s wrong take action. They vandalize his restaurant. Glass is shattered. Mirrors broken. Furniture destroyed.

He had invited his father to town to dine at the restaurant. That can’t happen now that the restaurant is in such bad shape. He is both enraged and despondent. He wants to give up.

His father offers a shoulder to lean on. “If you really want to piss off the people that did this,” his father tells him. “Forgive them.”

Success is the best revenge, some people say. It’s not. Anger can be an explosive fuel, but it is not sustainable. 

The best revenge is forgiveness.