Why does it feel so good getting back at your childhood bullies years later?

>>507356930 (OP)
It's weird how it works

When you're a kid you get bullied, and it's prescient, so your soreness about it is as fresh as it ever will be

As you get older and "more mature," you realize that shit really didn't matter, that those people were actually nothing, that you left them in the dust, etc. etc. and so it's all whatever

Yet, as you get even older, you've done enough introspection in your life to realize that, like at as not, the ones that bullied you all those decades ago did in fact mold your view of the world and the people in it, which may have caused you to zag when you should have zigged, said no when you should have said yes, etc, and lost a few key opportunities here and there as a result

You realize that, even though your life still turned out relatively fine, if you really DID encounter your school bully on the street somewhere from this point forward, you'd definitely have no qualms with wordlessly smashing their face in with a brick. You would probably feel no rage doing it either, just a simple, clinical re-balancing of an equation and justice that's been left hanging for too long a time

I think a large part of what is wrong with the current state of the world is we let too many of these kinds of small injustices remain unanswered for, and they pile up. A thousand cuts of small animosities fucking up the balance of the universe, and they need to be redressed