Sunday, October 19, 2008

alternating evil and good

Equality of every man has always been an issue since long time ago that philosophers of the past did discuss about it throughout their lives. some people believe that all men are created equal and hence denying the acceptability of any kind of apartheid or caste system.

what about things that have been going on around us? a lot of times when people try to classify anything that happen around them, they call them good or bad. there's something called balance of good and evil from what i learned from my class. and amazingly, there's no such thing as good and evil in our lives, just when both two are not in balance, we're then called in bad situation. this sounds so intuitively correct but is it always the case? if we don't know how evil is like, then can we tell how good is like then?

one more thing, are we always sure that the so-called bad is really bad? take an example, imagine a girl who has a boyfriend. one day a new girl who's more attractive come around (imagine they all taking the same class). one thing for sure, the first girl (one with bf) would feel challenged by the presence of the second girl. this is so natural and nothing's wrong with such feeling that the girl experiences. the issue here is; if you were the first girl and having this challenge facing you, how could u feel about this situation?

frankly speaking, i believe that most probably u might say this could be the most-hated ever kind of situation. well, this is one thing worth noticing. did u ever think of the situation as giving an advantage for u? the point i'm trying to make here is if u could regard the presence of the second girl as a test for ur bf and say if he ended up dumping you, believe me, it isn't as bad as u could imagine. wonder why? the fact that ur bf resorted to leave u is merely a good thing to u. it actually gets u out of a future problem early, as early as u couldn't imagine how early it actually is.

guess what? did u ever think that in fact one day, ur bf will have to, by no choice, be tested in such situation? this is what i believe what life is. it can be good, bad or even both.and they seem to keep alternating too. this cycle confuses me so much that i could no longer think which is which.

the same things happen in every other aspect of our lives. i think we're actually so confined with our very own lives that since birth, some other people can even tell how one's life is gonna be. if u were born to a very poor family with all sorts of conflicts, or in a country where it's instability is endless, someone can already tell how ur life is gonna be.

here comes the predetermined goal of life. different walk of lives has its own goal. if u have had education since early age, u might end up graduating from college, and if u didn't, u might end up anywhere else. somehow, we can never ever tell that since we have a scroll from college, we actually did better in our lives than those who don't. this is what happens to most people, and this is also why we always regard those who change this predetermined goal as unusual and unique. every man just has different journey of his life but they still end up at the same place.


THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE AS REALITY OF LIFE

3 comments:

base case said...

aku rasa kau dah silap ambil major r.....

u should reconsider PHILOSOPHY....hahaha

azimbaik said...

pale otak ko jamban...ak bahagie ngn major ak skang

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