Along my journey the perception of good and evil keeps changing. As time marches relentlessly forward these two concepts seem to be merging into one, slowly fading each other out. My younger version was always quick to label a person or action as being good or evil as they were so well-defined in my head.Was it my upbringing? Was it a reflection of society? I’m not entirely sure, but the classification into either of the two containers felt so obvious and natural.
As time goes by I realise that we are all functioning the best way possible in our current situation. I’m not saying that we can’t do better; we’re just not ready for better in a specific point in time. Our actions are determined by a combination of factors which in turn have evolved from some preexisting notion, idea or occurrence.
Let’s take a trivial (and alas real!) example of my decision to eat junk food during lunch hour today. The crucial moment, that split second when I had made up my mind to start walking towards Pizza Hut did not come out of nowhere. The decision was the sum of past experiences related to eating, my inability to plan or prepare food before I get too hungry, my false perception that being young (well, sort of) gives me some kind of get-out-of-hospital card and so on. These ideas are also products of countless other world experiences. This is the way life works – thought patterns live on from one person to another, where they mutate into slightly different and adapted versions.
Taking into consideration a complicated issue such as one’s volatile temper whilst dealing with a difficult person, the concept is the same. The rage is not something we want or desire. We’re slowly conditioned into these thought patterns of which we become mental slaves. The level of slavery varies from one person to another. The weaker we are, the less resistance we have to act in a certain way and this is why I’m slowly turning my back to good and evil.
Since we’re acting out of these conditioned ideas and since we’re constantly being pressured by our surroundings, whatever we do is the best we can afford in that particular moment in time. One might have the insight to learn form a situation and hence grow the ability to avoid repeating the same mistake, but that inner strength stems from a life experience or wisdom that some people simply don’t have.
People who have an obsession with stealing anything that’s readily available actually feel a physical urge to do so. Is stealing bad? Well, it causes grief to the person suffering the loss, but is the person stealing a bad person? I’m not so sure these days. That person is acting in the best way possible in that moment in time. It’s all that person can do when faced with that opportunity and in that specific part of their life journey. Couldn’t the person decide not to steal? In theory yes, however that person, due to factors unknown even to him or herself, was not able to reason that way.
This blurring of good and bad has helped me in my fight against judging people. We never know the story behind what’s going on in someone’s head, what’s going on with someone’s life. In order to judge you need to be presented with all the facts and the background of each fact, ending up with an infinite number of paths to follow. You’d basically need to understand the entire universe since its conception.
We’re all trying our best, even if to others it might seem evil, an abomination or taboo. Instead of stopping at good or evil I tend to float in between, leaving space for any eventuality or fact. Avoiding the labeling adds life to experience as it renews itself every time it is presented to us.
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Judging others is a big burden. Freeing ourselves of that makes us lighter. Thanks for the read.