I started reading The Devil and Miss Prym of Paulo Coehlo. The Brazilian author never fails to mezmerize me with his beautiful storytelling of universal human experiences.
Eventually, page after page, I cannot but confront my own duality. I cannot deny the fact that within the cloak of good and evil, I have danced both sides; which leads to me ask in conclusion, "Am I a good or a bad person?"
The question of right versus wrong, good versus evil is a perennial basic question. Sometimes I even ask myself, what is the basis for right and wrong? Why is it important to side with good and deviate from evil? Aren't the two, as Paulo Coehlo has stated, "twin brothers" in the birth of the universe?
What is beyond good and evil? German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died with a mental breakdown trying to decipher the essence of ethics. The Taoists say, that nature is endowed with dualities, the Yin and the Yang, the positive and the negative, the hot and the cold, the good and the evil. To live a happy life is to stay in the middle of these dualities as they dance around each other.
Going back to my question, am I good or evil? Or am I both?
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