Wednesday, December 13, 2006

An Age Old Question

We will always return to the age old question, what is right and what is wrong?

Perhaps, the world is truly black and white, and as an excuse to do the things we want, we lie to ourselves and others and say that there is a large area of gray. This gray area seems to be the fog in which we hide all our misdemeanors and negative aspects, the fog which turns our actions from something wrong, to something tolerable. The phrase goes that there are always two sides to the coin, or its black or white, and we don’t like it to be as simple as that, hence the creation of the gray area.

We pour over our heritage, in deep analytical study, and search for fact. We take the fact and apply it to where its components fit. The two sides of the coin theory can now be defenestrated, because it’s not a coin where the black and white are its only two sides. If so, we get lured into the gray fog, which we created in the absence of a direction other than the two given sides of said coin. No one ever likes either side of the coin, hence the gray area. Look at it, rather as a disco ball; where there are multiple sides all black and white and that it is our job to discern this black and this white. The main thing to keep in mind though is that there is a side for each occasion and that it is all black and all white, and the gray area is the place of fiction we use to excuse ourselves. The disco ball is quite large, for you can have a situation, the same for two people, but must be dealt with differently. But in the end, for each specific person, during each specific situation there is a right and a wrong, a black and a white.
We don’t like this. Hey, I don’t like it. But it is reality, our freedom of choice in every situation. It’s our job to stop lying to ourselves and really get down to the nitty gritty of whom we are inside. For one person, a particular course of action might seem wrong, to us, but is the right thing to do, for him. For another, what may seem to be the right course of action, to us, would in truth be detrimental for him. Only we really know what is going down in our hearts we must search for ourselves, the right path to take.

1 comment:

Desiree said...

Very interesting post! I was writing about right and wrong just last night myself. So this was most interesting to read.