Two sides of the coin..

2007.. The beginning of the end..

One of those periods in life when humanity as a whole starts evaluating the way things are going..

Multi National Corporations devising new strategies..

And me on a mission to determine the difference between right and wrong..

Every now and then someone comes up to you and tells you outright to your face, "Your WRONG", and the only fact of life is that it pisses you off.

So here i am, on a mission to educate my imaginary readers..

Lets start out with the great words of Eddie Murphy from the movie Vampire in Brooklyn :

"The big man teaches us, there's two sides to every story. Not one but two. A story is not one-sided. A story has duality. There's two sides to every story. Which brings to mind the phrase "necessary evil".

I know many of you hear that phrase and say, 'That don't even make no sense to me. Can't be no such thing as necessary - how's evil necessary? That don't match. That's plaids and stripes, evil and necessary.'

You see, because without bad, there is no good.

Without light, there is no dark, you need both these things.

You hear what I'm saying? If every day is a sunny day, well, then, what's a sunny day?

Well, the bottom line, what I'm trying to tell you tonight, is that evil...eeeevil... is necessary. Evil is necessary, thereby, if it's necessary, evil... - Evil... - ...must be good. Evil is good."

Worthy of thought.. I think so..

So what defines right from wrong?

Stealing is wrong, they say, but what about the little boy who steals a loaf of bread so that he doesn't starve to death. Is that wrong?

Telling lies is wrong, they say, but what about that little white lie that brings a smile on your loved ones face. Is that wrong?

I dont think so.

So what defines right from wrong?

Perspective.

Depends on how you look at it.

Personal Experience.. I am a smoker.. Just about everyone who knows me thinks that its wrong to smoke. Hell.. even i believe them sometimes..

Little do they understand the significance that little stick of joy holds in my life.. Nicotine calms me down.. It helps me concentrate.. It brings out the taste in food.. It makes my life have some meaning..

And the best part.. When you hold that lighted stick in between your fingers, bring it slowly to your lips, hold it down, take a breath.. feel the smoke going in through your lungs.. filling it with an instant warmth.. and just when you feel you cant hold it back no more.. exhale.. and.. relief.. smoke blowing out in pure poetic motion.. Forgetting all the worries around you.. Forgetting life.. Ecstacy to the extreme..

Some call it a cigarette.. I call it.. A slice of heaven..

So i die a couple of years before my time, but the way things are going.. Dont think i'd be missing out on much..

Perspective, ladies and gentlemen, is what its all about.

Remember the millions of times your boss might come out to give you a 'piece of his mind'.

You know and maybe even he knows your right and at the end of that conversation, all that you want to tell him is, "Maybe i should have.. Maybe i shouldn't have.. Maybe you should go fuck yourself.."

Right and wrong..

Who determines in a relationship whats wrong and right?

The lady? If so.. What gives her the right to call the shots?

The man? Says who?

So who or what defines right and wrong?

Hmmm.. Question for the ages..

There is a message that i would like to convey here.

Lets try and keep an open mind to ideas and opinions. Lets understand that what a person does might be wrong in our eyes, but maybe he/she has a different perspective.

Lets not judge a person based on his or her habits, but on values deeper than that.

Lets try and be better human beings.