Do we really need bad in the world to recognize the good? It’s an argument I’ve heard on numerous occasions recently, and it’s been leading me to wonder if we do indeed “need” negativity to see the positivity and beauty in life. Is there something preventing us from looking past the whole good and evil archetype and just accepting that we can actually have one without the other? Why do we feel compelled to see everything as strictly black and white rather than seeing everything for what it simply is? Can life simply just be?
As far as we can trace, yin and yang have governed every aspect of humanity, be you a devout believer in it or not. It’s irrefutable – we formulate plotlines, songs, daily life, philosophy, everything – on this idea that with good comes evil, and therefore with evil must come good. We are basically contradicting ourselves, then, when we say that we must end all evil on earth, and that conflict is the root of all strife. Would world peace then be the cause of our demise? Would the poles be reversed and all life cease if we were just too happy? I don’t get it. How can we collectively hold these two beliefs in balance when they so ardently oppose each other – they are magnets of the same charge, oil and water, vinegar and balsamic.
Yin and yang are real. Good and evil does exist. But maybe they don’t have to appear side by side all the time. I think that it may actually be possible to have one without the other. Oh, and that whole world peace thing – if this beautiful phenomenon would indeed manifest and we would stop chucking bombs at each other just because someone who was pissed off told us to, I don’t think we would all combust into cinders. As powerful as we are, we are still human, and therefore somehow create drama and contradiction when there isn’t any to be had. We would survive if all else were perfect. We are tormented beings enough to create some sort of internal yin and yang for ourselves. That’s just simply what is.
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