A sad people are we

Yesterday, I watched an episode of an anime series called 'Jigoku Shoujo' which basically transalates into 'Hell Girl'. The basic concept is if you have been wronged in any way and are suffering enough to hate the person that caused your suffering, you log on to the web at midnight and go to the 'Hell Hotline' and you post the name of the person you wish revenge upon. The 'Hell Girl' then appears in front of you and hands you a voodoo doll with a red string tied on it. She then says that if you wish for your tormentor to be eliminated, simply untie the string. However there is a catch, as soon as you do this you enter a contract with her. The one you seek revenge upon will be immediately taken to hell. But as a price you must make her restitution. When one person is cursed, two graves are dug. When you die, your soul will fall into the pit of hell. Your soul shall wander forever in pain and suffering, never knowing paradise.
The concept, if a bit cliche, intrigued me. I had a morbid need to know the situations which would lead to the summoning og the 'Hell Girl'. So I proceeded to eatch a couple more episodes to see the events unfold. After watching nad contemplating, it amazed me how clever we are at causing pain to others. As a race we are base creatures, creatures of desire and impulse. There are ofcourse exceptions few and far in between, but that is all they are exceptions.
There is a tale told of whole lot of frogs caught by a fisherman and put into a tub without a lid. There was no need for a lid because, if one frog trid to climb out, the others pulled it down, whereas if they had worked together, they could have avoided becoming some frenchman's dinner.
This can be made as an analogy to the human race. When somebody succeeds we try to drag then down and if we cannot, we lust after what they have and wallow in our darker emotions. I would be a hypcrite if I said I wasn't the same, but I have come to an epiphany lately.
I don't particularly believe in hell, or religion ofr that matter, but there is one thing which governs us all: Karma. Sooner or later your sins will catch up to you, and you shall reap what you have sown. When you feel hate, jealousy or any of the darker emotions towards another person, a little piece of your own soul dies along with it. We shouldn't waste time lusting after what we don't have and concentrate on waht we want to do. After all if one walks looking up into the sky, one is likely to stumble and fall, and as fickle as the fates are it would probably be face first into a big pile of doodoo. Joking aside, I feel a quote from 'Hell Girl' is very appropriate for this train of thought. When one is cursed, two graves are dug.