When we are born, we are born pure. Nobody is born evil. We possess characteristics which are part of our genetic fingerprint, passed down through the generations of our family and in some way, these do affect our personality but they naturally affect us positively, there is no natural negative or evil aspect to a human being. The negativity we feel in life is learned, it is being exposed to negative behaviour that creates evil people.
Negative behaviour includes depression, stress and hysteria but also includes a general lack of parental guidance, abuse from a rolemodel and constant correction on our behaviour as we are growing up.
When a person is constantly corrected for the way they are behaving as they grow, they learn that nothing they do is good enough. Often this belittling treatment will affect the person’s self esteem to the point where they over eat and become obese, or they self harm, or they become overly sexually active at a young age. Typically when a person is nagged in this way, they will go onto “act out” their negative emotions in these extreme ways. Some will then learn to turn these emotions into bad behaviours such as violence, vandalism, sexual crimes. Because they have a low regard for themselves, they also have a low regard for others. They hate the world that has treated them so awfully. All this could so easily be avoided of course if adults/parents/rolemodels would learn that constant nagging and other such belittling behaviour toward children is unecessary and quite frankly, down right cruel.
There are some however who find a way to turn this negativity into a positive motivation for them to succeed in life. Their philosophy being that since they have been treated so badly anyway, they might aswell take a few risks in life because nothing could make them feel worse than they already do anyway. They turn the evil that was done to them into something ultimately good. But they were not born good or bad, they learned this as they grew and what they became as an adult was determined by the way they had been treated while growing up. Thier characteristics may have helped them in their decision making but they did not determine the outcome of their lives.
So we are born pure and the world makes us cynical, possibly driven and possibly evil but it is the world that does this through the way our parents/rolemodels treat us and the way in which our societies are shaped. A person from a third world country who is being beaten regularly by their father may not react to this treatment as being quite as unfair as would a person from a country like the UK where people have more choice in their lives. More choice means more freedom and more freedom means more awareness of one’s rights as a human being. In this way, people have started turning away from Christian churches and politics because they see that they have choices in how they want to live and no longer appreciate the tight control these instituations used to have over us. Yet in poor countries where people’s choices are limited, they flock to church still.
We cannot wait for our societies to become more free or for our negative treatment to teach us how to be motivated. If we have not done so already, we need to make changes in our lives now. We are not evil nor tarnished in any way that we need to continue allowing. We have choices. We can reclaim our purity and purge ourselves of the evil that world has brought to us. We do not need to know God or flock back into churches either in order to attain this level of refreshed life. The answers are inside us where they have been all along and as soon as we learn to rid ourselves of the distractions that life puts in our way (alcohol, drugs, jealousy, anger) we will see those answers and through some study, learn how to bring them to the fore and action them in our lives.
