The Choice... Between Good & Evil

We make a lot of choices and decisions every day. Whether to get up and go to work, what clothes we are going to wear to work, what we’re going to have for breakfast, etc etc. But how many times do we wake up and say “I’m going to be ‘Good’ today.” Or even “Today feels like a day to be ‘Bad’.” What do you think when you walk past a homeless person on the street. Would you ignore them and walk on?

Watching Anakin grow up in the Star Wars movies, I realised that it was a choice that we need to make every day. And the trouble is, it is so much easier to be bad. Doing ‘Good’ is really hard work. Actively doing ‘Bad’ is pretty hard work too, but when we take the easy way out and refuse to make a decision, we are effectively casting our vote towards the bad. Our indifference is enough to tip the scales. Martin Luther King said – “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Albert Einstein also commented on this – “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”

That’s not to say that I think we should all be out there protesting in the rain, trying to end poverty – although I still think it’s a good cause – but I am interested in trying to shift the alignment back towards good. It’s a hard issue to tackle for most people, because 1. There are so many differing definitions of Good and Bad, and 2. It’s too much effort.

All I can say is that my goal (as of a few days ago) is to make the choice for Good a part of my morning routine. It will be a slow start, but I am going to focus on projecting love and compassion and a sincere desire for positive change out into the world. I know how easy it is to say when I’m already in a good mood, and that the test will be when I am in a bad mood, but my aim is to eventually phase out the negative thinking that causes the bad moods.

I’ve had pretty good success so far, managing to calm myself completely before an interview, managing to keep little things that would normally ruin my mood from getting to me, and above all – managing to keep on top of my thinking when I start to circle in negative space. So here’s to keeping our thinking positive and actively choosing Good every day.