I have almost never thought of the ways of the world - there's always so much that goes around in one's life that one can't simply just take time to observe. Observe, a word that has depth unfathomable but is often taken lightly.
Imagine a world that's rid of every evil, malice, death, and destruction - people don't know the name of pain or suffering, no betrayal, no corruption, no lies told; that sounds like a dream built upon lies and naivety and a tad of wishful thinking. There's no way of happening anytime soon. As humans we tend to be good and bad - no, I change my statement. Often good and bad are too obscure and embroiled together that it gets unidentifiable. People aren't inherently light, not they're completely dark and who says light is always good and dark is always bad.
Years ago I had watched The Invention of Lying (2009) and the memory is somewhat blurry for me. I am not relating the movie with the concept of good and bad, I believe there are many loopholes but my point is, can you imagine a world like the one portrayed in the movie? I guess not - it will be impossible to imagine such a thing. I'm not justifying bad and evil, but I can acknowledge that the dark, the bad, the evil cannot simply be wiped out of their existence. The simple facts that one comes to accept - the light is here and so is darkness, truth and lie walk hand in hand, there's as much good as there's evil, they all somehow coexist. It almost looks as if they're in such harmony that one can't exist without the other. And that would only mean
The water is always a little muddy.
I wouldn't start preaching about how people should stay good and not lean towards evil, nor I would say that people should bring in light and not darkness. Although, I would wonder if you do not hurt someone, simply because you are uninterested or you think it's wrong. There are, however, people out there who stay away from committing a crime because they fear they'd get caught and not because they shouldn't do it, and if that's the case, how less evil are they. I do not know where it started, I don't think anyone knows, and maybe there are enough prospective answers for where and how evil takes shape in the world, but not everyone looks for the answers, not even me. Where there's risk and danger and it lures us, the chances that have their upsides and downsides, risks that can be beneficial and detrimental, people will be miserable half the time and the other half would have happier moments.
If there was a world so perfect where it's donned in light, it'd still burn someday.
That is a dreadful thought, but nothing is ever permanent, neither peace nor chaos nor war nor harmony. And here we are living in a perfectly imperfect world, where there are imperfections.
And life is what we make of it.
