Last term, I had to write an essay for my assignment (yes, it's still counted as an assignment!). It was pretty hard, mainly because we got to choose our own topic. There were a lot of topics that I could choose and so, it was difficult but still, I apparently managed to survive, as I'm still here and typing, with a relatively good score - well, it is a good score, to me at least.
The essay is about the fact that people always expect life to be fair.
People always expect a lot of this world, have you ever thought about that? When it comes to them, they're always right, but when it's others, it's mostly 'That person was cheating!' or something like that. Not only that, people expect good to always overcome evil. I mean, if the whole world was like that, then we wouldn't have any bad OR good guys. (I'll explain later) Finally, do you notice how things that people say seem to apply to only other people and not themselves? It is annoying; a bit like cheating, in fact.
Now, the thing about cheating is that it is... cheating. Ask any kid and they'll tell you that it's wrong, and 'not nice to do'. But the thing is, when is it counted as 'cheating'? A basic definition of cheating would be doing something that gives you an unfair advantage... or that's what it
seems to me. So, when people accuse others of cheating, they are therefore accusing that person of this - an unfair advantage to win. But that person may have lost because of other reasons, such as lack of skills, distracted by personal problems, etc. But that doesn't mean that the winning person cheated. It just means that he was luckier, or had more skills. This type of thinking probably is known as the 'sore-loser' approach of thinking. They think that they are right, and that the other person (or other people) is wrong.
Which brings me to my next point: Good vs Evil. What is up with that? It always seems that good will win. However, evil wins too, sometimes. Everyone seems either to notice one or the other - not both. I guess it reflects your own mind of thinking: if you think of all the good things, then that means that you generally think positively; and regarding bad things, negatively. But everyone, no matter positively or negatively thinking, wants a happy ending. Like all good stories, there is always a happy ending, with the main characters fulfilling their tasks, and possibly getting a partner as well... only 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' is a bad ending, but it is for the extreme negatives, I suppose. Even after life there is a happy ending of sorts, with karma, reincarnations, and heaven waiting for us. I don't claim to be an expert on the afterlife, but isn't it the 'happiness place' for us? It is a place where we can live out our 'happily ever after', possibly forever. But anyway, back to good and evil. To me, good is overrated. Do you notice that people usually count themselves as 'good', or maybe even 'misguided', but never 'bad' or 'evil'? A twisted sense of self-worth, I suppose. If we went by everyone's standards of good and evil, then we probably wouldn't have good or bad people, because everyone just
knows that they are good. (Even if you thought of someone as evil, to them, they would be good so...we could be going at this forever.) Anyway, it seems that everyone is very self-centred.
If we keep telling other people their own mistakes, but never bother to acknowledge our own, then wouldn't that kinda make us hypocrites? (P.S.: For those of you that don't know, a hypocrite is someone that says something and doesn't do it. Eg. Your mother tells you to go do your HW, and she doesn't do it. The fact that she probably DOESN'T HAVE any HW has nothing to do with it. You get the general idea, anyways.)
Well, I suppose we are mainly interested in looking out for ourselves. Sure, we're crude, we're mean (No, we're NOT green!), and are most likely arrogant enough to think that we are plain good, in both everything and anything, but we're still human.
