Light and Darkness

What is light? What is darkness? What is good? What is evil?

Have you ever rummaged for these answers? I have. What really defines right from wrong? We live in a world which is tilting and changing rapidly. Many things which were a taboo in the time of our fathers pass on as ordinary today. A little child takes a piece of meat from the kitchen pot and he learns that it is wrong by the stinging pain of his mother’s cane, but how did his mother come to know that it is wrong to take a piece of meat from the pot unsupervised? Is it a universal rule or does she just believe it is wrong because her mother told her so? The latter should be the case because even if it is a universal rule, I don’t think anybody knows where it is written, some cultures would abolish it while some would embrace it with arms wide open. Like Ernest Hemingway said in his book Death in the Afternoon, “So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

This goes to show that we are all an embodiment of what we were taught and our experiences as children; now I’m a super fan of children, I just love how they are so trusting and plump and puerile, and it makes me quiver with excitement. Maybe that is why I get so concerned when I see grown-ups spoil them and teach them wrong, delusional that somehow, somewhere in the future they would get to learn the right from someone at someplace, how fraudulent.

Right and wrong are two conflicting concepts, the criteria to determine one from the other is always varying.  No person can have supreme adjudication as to what is right and what is wrong, Megan Chance does a fine job of explaining that in her book The Spiritualist: “Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?”
“Why brown, of course.”
“But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?”
“That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?”
He ignored my question. “You say it’s brown, and I say it’s white. Who’s right?”
“We’re both right.”
“Non,” he said. “We’re both wrong. The house isn’t brown or white. It’s both. You and I only see one side. But that doesn’t mean the other side doesn’t exist. To not see the whole is to not see the truth.” 

Light can only be distinguished from darkness

As long as light exists, there will be shadows and as long as the concept of ‘winners’ exist, there will always be ‘losers’.

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