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Good Vs. Evil

Posted on July 19th, 2007 by The King.
Categories: Everything and Anything!!!, Life.

We’ve all wondered why bad things happen to us. Every now and then something so bad happens that you lose all faith in the things you believe in. It’s an age old question, “Why did this happen to me?” We’ve all felt the pain, the ache of a broken heart, or the loss of someone dear, or the failure of an important exam. Hell, even the cut of a finger. We know how it feels to go down into the trenches. Keep that thought.

Now, have you ever won a prize? Your first kiss? You achieving your goal. We’ve all felt that as well. Oh the ecstasy, the power, the orgasmic feeling. It’s amazing isn’t it? If we compare both the feelings there’s so much difference. While we curse one feeling, we crave for the other. It’s amazing how both of them are so disparity yet they’re incomplete without each other. Without one, the other wouldn’t be possible. They’re do dissimilar that they can’t exist without each other.

Looking at the picture “Good V. Evil” you can visually see what I’m trying to see. I think this picture sums up what I’m trying to say here. Life is like a spiral, and everything’s relative. Without Good we don’t know what Evil is. Evil is when something or someone does something really bad. What is bad, the opposite of good. What is good? Good is the opposite of evil.

Going back to the first paragraph, we always question God, Faith, Destiny, Life when something bad happens to us. We wonder why everything can’t always be “happy time”. Just like the good and evil, “happy time” can’t exist without “sad time”. Looking at the picture “Life – Ups and Downs”, the green lines represent “happy time” and the red represents “sad time”. The parts of the line when they are parallel to the X axis are when life’s normal or boring. What makes life special are the ups and downs, the crests and troughs, ying and yang. You’re probably still questioning as to why I showed you that picture? Well to prove to you that life with only happiness will be mundane. Look at picture “Life – Boring” and then at “Life – Always Happy Time”. See anything similar. Yup, they’re the same. A boring life = a life which always has Happy Time. The reason life has its ups and downs is because without they’ll be no difference in life. It’ll be too mundane.

Life needs its upsets and excitements to not only teach us lessons but to make us feel. To let us make out the difference which is what happiness is. It’s when you’re better than usual. Or when you’ve just risen from a fall and see a beautiful woman helping you up. So next time something bad happens, remember, have faith and know that it will get better. If it doesn’t, it’ll just feel normal then :P

I’ll leave you with this German Proverb:

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

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7 comments.

Gurdit

Comment on July 19th, 2007.

Definitely, everything is relative.

As for your first paragraph, you ought to know that I haven’t asked “Why does this only happen to me?” for a long time now, after I realized that people ask this EVERY TIME something bad happens to them… even if the same thing happened to 100 other people :P

Shabaz [purepain]

Comment on July 19th, 2007.

Everyone asks themselves those daily questions more for some then others but you are totally correct in saying theres no good without evil you would never enjoy the great things unless you experience the things that test you daily. Having the bad things happen just makes the good ones even better. So dont always kick yourself when something bad happens i take it as the first thing before you get the great thing. You can say the rain before the rainbow :D.

Jason

Comment on July 19th, 2007.

Evil isn’t truly the opposite of good, it’s the absence of it. Either way, though your point stands… what makes your life unique is the patterns of good things vs bad things (and keep in mind that evil and bad are NOT the same… evil is a mental/spiritual/conscious thing, bad can be simply something unpleasant, although evil obviously falls into that category). So if you don’t want to be the same as everyone else, enjoy the fact that your life is not always the same.

Black Balloon

Comment on July 22nd, 2007.

Truth is spoken here, but there are abstractions on an individual basis. Sometimes too many bad things have happened to a person for the good things to counter-balance. It gets to a point where, when something good happens, one automatically reminds oneself that all of these bad things have already happened and that’s what needs focus. In that way, one is blocked from ever actually feeling happy, and it’s the same as leading a life of complete and boring bliss.

I would also like to point out that Good and Evil are entirely subjective. Say you want someone to die. If they do, it’s a good thing for you and it would make you happy (without going into points of personal conflict in which you question your intent and the morality involved), but it would obviously be horrible for them. Given that, I like to avoid using bullshit terms like good and evil, and simply look at the events and outcomes in a stoic manner. If something bad happens to me, I can be happy it didn’t happen to someone else I care about. Adversely, if something good happens to me, I might be disappointed that someone else didn’t benefit from that.

I’ll leave it with the following quote:

Me want cookie! - Cookie Monster.

Scabdates

Comment on July 22nd, 2007.

Yeah, I wonder why you act like a 4 year old to me for no reason.

Shabaz [purepain]

Comment on July 22nd, 2007.

Well Black Balloon i can’t really say i understand when people have been wronged so much that they dont see the good when they get it. I believe that you should look forward to something good hope for it. I’ll use relationships for the time being. If you look at the average person or look at yourself you go through many different many relationships(speaking of love not friends or anything of that sort).You say people who get hurt so much once they get something good it causes them to look at all the bad that has happened to them. I dont understand this if you have something good live in it, cause you never know how long it’ll last. I wandered off track, but relationships you go through so many to find that “one true love”(i quote this because i dont believe in this its quite cliche in my eyes)[Maybe i will when i find someone who makes me feel like that at least i hope id love to believe in this].But its not like you give up once something bad comes around, on the contrary you search harder for that one person who makes you happy, causes a smile to come across your face, when you think about him/her your mood is altered from whatever it was to being ecstatic because they’re in your life.

Live life to the fullest cause you dont know how long you have left. Be happy when you can, live in the moment dont dwell on the past.

The King

Comment on July 22nd, 2007.

Honestly, I understand what you’re saying when you have to keep fighting to find that “true love”. But i’ve been through a painful break up and at times I do feel like there was nothing left. But then again, I’ve been happier coz time heals all.

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