Pride goes before the fall

I don't know if this is the correct translation for the german saying "Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall".

However, this was the thought I had when I got the news days ago that our company finally got rid of our former head of department. I don't intend to being a meanie by making this a post in my blog - although I feel a bit of a malicious joy. This and another person made our life in the company very difficult and sad for about two years. In my case I had to bear physical and psychological consequences, even though some of the people that know me didn't notice. But it was a tough time.

During that time colleagues kept telling me to hang in and that somehow sooner or later the universe would get back to these persons, that they wouldn't be able to behave like that forEVER. I couldn't believe it then. They seemed (and were) so powerful to me. Some people including me were scared of them, really intimidated. Personally I had lost the belief in the "good" and in the fairness in life. I was really lost, thinking that the whole world was ruled by such people. The only way to get out of the situation seemed to seek another job. 

It didn't work out for me. "Hang in there", colleagues and friends kept saying, "there are going to be better times". When? I gradually got mad when constantly hearing this. And IF this is really going to happen, will they appreciate the lecture to stop that attitude in the future?

Today, 3 years later, the moment is here - it's unbelievable!

I don't have the impression that they learned their lecture, but I guess my colleagues were right after all.

So, let's be careful and behave like a good human.

Because ...

...what goes around comes around.