Are People Good or Bad?
Extremism is an integral part of our movie industry. All the stories and scripts precisely define a boundary between evil and good. They display the villain as the worst human conceivable, and portray the hero as the noblest of all the men!
It isn’t a pressing topic, to be honest, until and unless this perception trickles inside our minds and corrupts our day-to-day life. We have become extremists. We assess people as either good or bad, we either emphasize their worst or we over cherish their good.
“I never realized before how much of a jurist I am. I try to bring everything back to the basics, to black-and-white situations. The world is not a rainbow.”
― Danny Mekić
I feel this transparent concept of good and bad is flawed, it’s just too rigid in an amenable world.
People aren’t good or bad, our perception of them is good or bad. For example, think about the people you hate most. You would give a million reasons to justify how they are as wicked as a Fox! But what if I ask someone close to them? They will have a different perception of that person.
“People aren’t evil and people aren’t good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?”
— Caryl Churchill
This distinct defining of the people around us is a function of our brain, it’s how it works. It’s on us to control it, to reflect upon the conclusions we reach in mere seconds.
No person is good or bad, everyone has their flaws and strengths, and it entirely depends upon what we want to converge on, the blemish or the strengths.
“Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.”
— Juice Wrld
