n sees no point to pain. It does no one any good. Though at some time it may end, like a tornado will stop destroying eventually, it will leave nothing but devastation and misery. Once the reality of a terrible incident has set in, and you have begun to experience the suffering or pain as a result, bitterness can eventually consume you. Because of your suffering you become bitter and see only the pain you have gone through. Bitterness will isolate a man from any remotely similar situations that could possibly bring about a recurrence of the same situation which brought you pain in the first place. For instance, consider divorcees that refuse to marry again after going through a previous marriage, in which they were abused or cheated on, one time after another by the same person. After awhile a person becomes conditioned into believing that if this situation brings me so much pain, where one who says they love you is capable of hurting or lying to you, it is likely that it could happen again. The torment endured is too great to face the possibility that it could happen again. Aside from this possibility is one in which you not only are hesitant to go on, but you protect yourself by taking the identity of that which caused you so much pain. Consider this. If you are abused, then you will abuse. If you are cheated on, then you will cheat. If you are violently assaulted, then you will assault. People can become so bitter that they see only the pain they have received then feel the only protection against it, is to display yourself. In Jasper, Texas, three white men are being sentenced to death for killing a black man by beating and dragging him behind a truck on the road. During the trial one of the men, in his defense, began his testimony by telling the jury of his dysfunctional family life from birth. He explained that his mother abandoned him and his brother when he was 3, and that he never met his biological father unti...
