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There's one thing I'm starting to notice lately. It doesn't matter how bad the situation may be. It doesn't matter how corrupted things get. It doesn't matter how much evil gets into men's hearts. And it doesn't matter how much fear, and even pain, ruled people before. It seems even the greatest fears begin to weaken and erode away via something else that is even more tenacious and hard to eradicate than all the darkness in the world. Perhaps you can guess what it is?
Boredom.
The greatest evil, if endured long enough, will become familiar. What is familiar becomes mundane. And what is mundane always loses its fear. Pain generates inner strength, and further, when that evil loses the fear that was attached to it before, humans will ALWAYS grow bold and seek to remove it. And sure, evil may still win anyway. It may be that such efforts fail and darkness rules once again. But always, as long as people exist, that deep inner hope will always remain, waiting to grow in even the smallest weakness of evil which later grows within us and spreads to become a steely determination that is so much harder to eradicate.
Over and over and OVER again will evil have to defend its territory. And it only has to mess up dearly once to get crushed by that same courage that drives humans forward. And that's the thing about evil too. By its very nature, it tends to regress. It has no choice BUT to grow weaker. What is more, every time humanity conquers evil, they permanently become just a little more adept at getting rid of it. So... In the end, evil has so much more to fear from us than we do. Such is the way of things.
(This isn't really attached to or about any one specific thing. It's just an encouraging thought I had and wanted to write about.)
Boredom.
The greatest evil, if endured long enough, will become familiar. What is familiar becomes mundane. And what is mundane always loses its fear. Pain generates inner strength, and further, when that evil loses the fear that was attached to it before, humans will ALWAYS grow bold and seek to remove it. And sure, evil may still win anyway. It may be that such efforts fail and darkness rules once again. But always, as long as people exist, that deep inner hope will always remain, waiting to grow in even the smallest weakness of evil which later grows within us and spreads to become a steely determination that is so much harder to eradicate.
Over and over and OVER again will evil have to defend its territory. And it only has to mess up dearly once to get crushed by that same courage that drives humans forward. And that's the thing about evil too. By its very nature, it tends to regress. It has no choice BUT to grow weaker. What is more, every time humanity conquers evil, they permanently become just a little more adept at getting rid of it. So... In the end, evil has so much more to fear from us than we do. Such is the way of things.
(This isn't really attached to or about any one specific thing. It's just an encouraging thought I had and wanted to write about.)
