Exploring the Dark Sides of Our Humanity
How is it that bad things happen to good people. They’re good people so are not deserving of such bad occurrences in their lives? Or is it because evil preys upon the weak. And to some being nice is a weakness and ruthlessness is the only true power? It makes no sense to think of it that way, that you should be rewarded for your immorality. It cannot be that simple.
So let us try another approach, maybe it is the characteristics of a good person that makes them fall prey to evil? So what is it that them good people and yet susceptible to the world’s most horrible of luck.
One simple thing, an insignificantly important trait: kindness. It is those who are kind who are preyed upon most deliberately. But still it makes no sense, why would anyone want to cause trouble for anyone who was kind? No one, except those who harbor a true hate for humankind.
So lets take the perspective from a different angle. It is not that people mean any harm towards them, but that is it the harm that means harm. The less fortunate of us who are forever categorized as bad people for whatever reason are devoid of kindness, because whatever has branded us a bad person also has stolen away our kindness. And so it becomes the less fortunate person’s propensity to regain what they have lost. The simple innocence that allows them to be kind, and therefore be a good person who has made a couple of mistakes rather than the bad person always. So we look for those who are kind and attach to them. For it, to us, is a marvel that they unquestioningly, unjudgingly accept us for who we are when all else shun us is completely amazing. These people who we don’t know accept us. They give us the undying devotion that we know nothing about.
Now back to the original point of view. To a nice person, a truly nice, faultlessly nice person. All are equal, no matter your past, etc. All are accepted, for that is how you perceive it to be right. You are one to judge them, and until such time you are nice to them. And so this is where all goes wrong - in this virtue is your greatest weakness. Because you provide what they most need they develop unhealthy attachments to you...however, you being the nice person see this not, and continue to accept them faults and all. Then trouble comes after the unfortunate person, because it is in their nature for trouble to follow them wherever they go. And because you, the nice person, are associated with them trouble comes after you to. But the funny thing about trouble is, it bring a person into a totally different light than what is normally seen by everyone else. And it is this side that is the bane of anyone who has a heart. It strikes you in two ways: 1) you feel fear, fear of this person whom you’ve never met, who used to be someone different; and 2) sympathy rises within you, you feel ultimately responsible for all their pain, that you are now adding to it because you must disassociate yourself from them just like everyone else...
So that is how bad things happen, most unexpectedly and for the most part most uncontrollably.
So let us try another approach, maybe it is the characteristics of a good person that makes them fall prey to evil? So what is it that them good people and yet susceptible to the world’s most horrible of luck.
One simple thing, an insignificantly important trait: kindness. It is those who are kind who are preyed upon most deliberately. But still it makes no sense, why would anyone want to cause trouble for anyone who was kind? No one, except those who harbor a true hate for humankind.
So lets take the perspective from a different angle. It is not that people mean any harm towards them, but that is it the harm that means harm. The less fortunate of us who are forever categorized as bad people for whatever reason are devoid of kindness, because whatever has branded us a bad person also has stolen away our kindness. And so it becomes the less fortunate person’s propensity to regain what they have lost. The simple innocence that allows them to be kind, and therefore be a good person who has made a couple of mistakes rather than the bad person always. So we look for those who are kind and attach to them. For it, to us, is a marvel that they unquestioningly, unjudgingly accept us for who we are when all else shun us is completely amazing. These people who we don’t know accept us. They give us the undying devotion that we know nothing about.
Now back to the original point of view. To a nice person, a truly nice, faultlessly nice person. All are equal, no matter your past, etc. All are accepted, for that is how you perceive it to be right. You are one to judge them, and until such time you are nice to them. And so this is where all goes wrong - in this virtue is your greatest weakness. Because you provide what they most need they develop unhealthy attachments to you...however, you being the nice person see this not, and continue to accept them faults and all. Then trouble comes after the unfortunate person, because it is in their nature for trouble to follow them wherever they go. And because you, the nice person, are associated with them trouble comes after you to. But the funny thing about trouble is, it bring a person into a totally different light than what is normally seen by everyone else. And it is this side that is the bane of anyone who has a heart. It strikes you in two ways: 1) you feel fear, fear of this person whom you’ve never met, who used to be someone different; and 2) sympathy rises within you, you feel ultimately responsible for all their pain, that you are now adding to it because you must disassociate yourself from them just like everyone else...
So that is how bad things happen, most unexpectedly and for the most part most uncontrollably.