I had a similar experience with a woman I knew who was pretty awful to me, when I really needed a friend after a traumatic experience. I thought to myself that I wanted her to one day know what it was like to need support and not get it.
A few years later I heard that her brother had been involved in a pretty bad car accident and was left a paraplegic the same week she gave birth to her baby.
She chose to care for her brother personally as well as her child, which was so amazing, and I genuinely felt so sad for the whole family and expressed this to her by phone. I never wanted anything like that to happen to her or anyone, and I don't think I have that kind of power, but she definately found out what it was like to need support and not get it...financially anyway.
It could be argued that the universe would have handed her that lesson regardless of whether I thought the way I did at the time...but there was definately very strong feelings of wanting revenge towards her, which I never physically carried out...and didn't need to either!
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