Kindness and Evil.

I contemplate a lot of things, and i contemplate often. I am not usually a blog writer, but my emotions are controlling my hand.

In every person, i believe a great kindness and a great evil exist. I believe they coexist, and one would not survive without the other. Just as without night, there would be no day and vice versa. Sometimes kindness is prominent in certain people, and evil in others. Sometimes its neutral. Everyone has dark thoughts, everyone gets heart warming feelings from certain things. People are versatile, and that is what makes them wonderful, and horrible creatures all at once. Thats what makes it so beautiful.

I acknowledge the evil, but i seek out the kindness in people. It seems that it is so easy for people to be caught in despair, and so difficult to have hope. It seems that it is so easy to criticize, but difficult to have the courage to pay a compliment. I believe there are different aspects of that kindness and that evil, as if you could split it into sections; like taking water from a well and dispersing it, it all comes from the same source. Both kindness, and evil have many faces.

Its a beautiful thing, to find the kindness in a person. I am usually social, i am not afraid to smile or say hello. I pay compliments, i speak my mind. Fairly recently, i was getting to know someone, and i was waiting for that kindness to show, i knew it was there, but its like it was covered by a dense cloud. Sometimes, i could catch a glimpse of it, but then the defenses were back up. I haven't found that kindness, instead i found a great evil. I knew it was there, but i didn't expect it; I was just shown one of its faces... It leaves my mind melancholy..

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Comment by Windcaller on March 11, 2010 at 6:16pm: love and hate lay their roots deep within the heart.... though I consider myself to be on a path of light... I tend to falter from it at times.... be ware that your gaurdian spirits are not turned to tyrany... for a broken trust may be restored but often leaves it's fractures forever...

Comment by Artemis on March 11, 2010 at 7:10pm: Topher: I agree with you. I am not waiting, i feel that if someone waits, life passes them by. I let it flow like all things flow and let it become what it will.

Wind: I am very aware of my guardian spirits. And regarding trust, trust can be restored, but the person has to show they deserve that trust, they have to open themselves up so they can be trusted. Just as topher said with compassion.

Comment by RobbyAlphaWolfOfTheSouth-AKA Ged on August 3, 2010 at 12:37pm: We all have our evils and our kindnesses but only when we come to peace with our own evils can we come to peace with others if you can look at yourself a forgive yourself for the evils you have done only then can you forgive another for their evils. Likewise only when we trust ourselves can we fully trust others.

Comment by Woodsong Lorn on April 20, 2012 at 1:21am: I like reading the blogs of people with whom I become friends. I am honoured to be called your friend. So here's my take on evil and kindness...

Evil is a tricky thing. It very often starts out as something the one thinks is good. For example, Power in and of itself is a good thing. If you have power, you can get things done; have more potential to accomplish good things. In 1830, somebody probably thought they were using their power to do good by setting aside land for various indigenous Native American nations so that there might be fewer conflicts with the new European Americans. Unfortunately the result of that Indian Removal Act is now called 'The Trail of Tears', and is (quite justly) viewed as a great evil (not to mention the countless humanitarian travesties that have resulted since then).

I think that we know things like that are evil by comparison against good. It would have been good if no-one had died on the Trail; if people could live alongside each other without feeling threatened by cultural differences. Evil only exists as opposition to (or a twisting of) something good. Even the evilest people in history (e.g. Nero, Hitler, Mussolini) in some way thought that they were right, though the fruits of their actions (the deaths of innocents) show the evil. within. Their actions were also the result of thinking that they knew best, but without listening to or having empathy for the people they persecuted, oppressed, and murdered, they manifested some of the worst evils humans can execute.

Kindness requires no knowledge of evil. One does not do something kind by twisting a bad/evil thought to kindness, but one of the worst things an individual can do is to make you think they are being kind whilst betraying you in your trust. To forgive someone who has beguiled you is a difficult thing, let alone trust. However, forgiveness is a kindness in itself (first and foremost it is a kindness to your own spirit to let go of the pain and anger). Kindness only requires empathic love which puts one into the shoes of another (what people used to call charity). Good is good all by itself.

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