Sunday, November 11, 2007

good girl:bad girl

I have never realized how hard it is to picture an actualized world of equality. Not that things will be fair, but that they're equal. It's hard to picture a world that has moved on from dichotomies, this idea of good:bad light:dark smart:dumb black: white. Everyone thinks of life in dichotomies, "If I'm not this, I'm this." And they construct their "selves" from it. But the truth is, you aren't good or bad, you're somewhere in between. Because sometimes you do really good things, and sometimes you do really bad things. You can't be completely one or the other.

And as much as I believe it, I can't see the world seeing it that way. For some reason we like good:bad friend:enemy lover:hater.

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