Wrong For Every Right.

 

Imagine living in a hundred years of peace, quiet and tranquility, no war, no internal or external strife, a nation, a world, without turmoil or struggle. Lofty idealism at its finest.  A world where only good exists, where the hero would be waiting in the wings in the slight chance that even the smallest of problems should arise, they could swoop in at a moment's notice and crush the problem before it started. 

Well, you can imagine it, but it will never happen. Call me a realist, but the world will always have as many bad guys as it has good ones. But see, here’s where it gets tricky, bad guys can serve a useful purpose too, try to follow my logic here, they keep us on our toes, they keep our guards up, and without at the very least, the threat of danger, we could easily become complacent, and complacent people make easy targets, so in that regard perhaps, they do serve a healthy purpose. 

We do tend to let our guards down too much, we become too trusting of others with veiled intentions, and we end up with a lot of Pearl Harbor and 911 type of scenarios, simply because we want to see the good in people, and our fearless leaders, through ignorance or arrogance, (Or both) choose to ignore the warning signs that not everyone on this planet has our best interests in mind. News flash, there is no perfect world.

There are bad people here that will always want to do us harm, they have been here just as long as us, and in many cases, even longer. There will always be bad for every good, wrong for every right, evil has been here for centuries, and it doesn’t appear to be going anywhere, anytime soon. So I guess for the time being, don’t let down your guard just yet, keep the faith, and don’t ever forget about the past. For me at least, it seems that the biggest difference between good and bad is knowing the difference between the two, and choosing the right path.