Come To The Dark Side, Luke - Meagan Hale

Most people would say good and evil are polar opposites like hot and cold or day and not, but I think it's much more complex than that. I think that good and evil are teetering on a thin grey line rather than being black and white. People are not inherently good or evil but rather a mixture of the two. Some have more good in them while other more evil. I also thinking that there is good in evil and evil in good which is what makes the world a mostly grey place. So how can opposites be in each other? You can't go right and left at the same time. Well, take the idea of good in evil first. Something bad happens to your friend and rather than telling them the truth you lie to them to spare their feelings. It was a good thing to protect your friend but in doing so you lied. Lying may not be an evil to some but the Bible says, "thou shall not lie" and if you aren't religious you can't lie in court either so there you go. All of my life I have heard the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Maybe it is. Now for the evil in good. Some people only do good when they will get something from it. How many high school students would do community service if they didn't have to? Would people still run into a burning building to save people if the news cameras weren't rolling? Some would, most wouldn't. It's hard to distinguish between good and evil. I think that the world is mostly full of evil. Besides, its easier to do the wrong thing generally than the right thing. We're humans and as humans we are a mixture of a lot of things. Intelligence, stupidity, love, hatred, happiness, sadness, good, and evil. I think most people are good. Media usually shows the stories of murder and robbery and rape because those get more attention and it skews our perception of the world. There are truly evil people in the world and as much as we want to believe in humanity some people do fail us. I think good has a way of prevailing but personally I prepare for the worst. Evil is powerful and overwhelming. Evil disguises itself as the sweetest fruit of the tree and its not until we bite into that fruit until we realize that it's rotten. Even Lucifer was an angel once, God's favorite even before falling from grace. Humanity's desire to be good is a force to be reckoned with. I think in a sense there is a battle between good and evil. We live amongst both and it's up to each individual person to choose a side. Freud was right when he described our Id, Ego, and Superego. There is good and evil in all of us. We all have to strive for the balance. We all have to be our Ego.