Come to the dark side, Luke

Good vs. evil is as old as mankind, but has no answer. I believe that good and evil are two extremities, two sides of the world and as the two battle and conflict they bleed into each other creating the gray world that most of us live in. In this gray nothing is purely evil or purely good. Everything is about perspective and the confliction with the human desire to do right, that is so often failed. For example, if a man murdered another man, you would say that that is wrong. But what if I said that the man he murdered raped his young daughter? Then it is not so clear cut and eternally there is confliction between the wrong doing and the justice it tried to achieve. But this idea that the world is not doomed to evil and that goodness can still, not only exist, but prevail, is a hard thing to believe in, especially as we get older and see the atrocities that we were ignorant of as children. I babysit 4 kids, and the oldest brother Jacob was playing guns with his sisters, I asked him to stop and he didn't understand why. It happened to be the day of the Sandy Hook shooting and I wasn't comfortable with watching a little boy even pretend shoot at anyone. Jacob didn't know what happened, he will still innocent, he didn't see the evil world that I saw that day. The human struggle is living in this gray area where nothing is clear and everything has repercussions and we try to guide ourselves through what is right and what is wrong and try to do the best thing we can most of the time. The world can be a very scary place at times where all we see is evil. We see deaths and evils, we see the raging violence against the innocent and its hard to imagine this world getting any better. I once heard from someone that we can't fear the world, and that the only true way to make the world better is for good people to raise good kids. That being said, no one is perfect and the world will always be an imperfect place with evil in it, because the world is a reflection of us as humans. Not one of us is perfect and is free from the evil that we fear, but we are also good people. I like to believe that humans are naturally good but that we have some evil in us that we spend our entire existence battling that evil. And I find myself holding the same hope as Charles Dickens, “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”