This article of mine was published in our College Magazine in 2005.
"Reputation is what men and mortals think of us,
Character is what Gods and Angels know of us"
With every day and from both sides of my moral and the intellectul reasoning,i have made a partial discovery-that man is not truly one but truly two.I say two because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point.
There is a thorough and primitive duality in every man.It is not that he is one of the ether,but he is radically both.Every man has his darker side of existence,but just like the moon,only that side is visible which we perceive or rather the darker side is concealed by the natural impetus of man to advance infallibly in only one direction.By birth,every man gets fettered by the obligation to be at his best disposition.No instituition,no organisation,no nation, or even for that matter np philosophy approbates or assents the justification of an evil deed.An immoral man has no place in the society.An exorbitant,and a belligerant disposition stands no chance of being able to vindicate the ocurence of a misdeed.So it has been from times immemorial and so it will be always!!
But its the natural instinct of every man to be a fiend if he chooses to be one.If he gets but one channel where he could outsource all his fiendish misdeeds,he would feel relieved.If the good and the bad could be housed in separate identities,life would be relieved of all that was unbearable;the unjust could go his way,delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin,and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he finds pleasure.It is the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots are bound together,that in the agonised womb of consciousness these twins should be continuously struggling.
If the good and the bad both find separate channels for existence in a single human soul,life would have been much more meaningful!!
If there were some method by which man could outpour all of his fiendish instincts with no fear,no self reproach,no pre consideration,nor post lamentation,to no one but to himself the need to give any explanation or justification-the good side of him would feel less guilty than before when he would no longer have to plod the earth as an idol of morality and virtue,though housing all the viciousness from within.He would no longer have to be a masquerader to the society as well as to himself.It would be such a relief to remain virtuous and moral genuinely,but at the same time being more wicked than ever!!!
It is but so natural that the society repugnates the very physical appearance of an evil man.Even as the good shows upon the countenance of the one,the evil is written plainly and broadly upon the face of the other.The world is so accustomed to commingle with the masqueraders that the chances of seeing a purely evil or a purely virtuous man is next to impossible.
There must be some solution to the conflicts arising between the evil side and the good side in a man.The evil must free flow without any restraint,yet not foregoing the good reputation as well.just as men hire bravos to transact their crimes,while their own person and reputation sat under shelter.
This is a struggle between man's nature and his nurture,it is relevant in all periods of life.There is an animal in every man,an instinct to do evil,a tendency to stray from the decorum of society and spring headlong into the stream of liberty.
Just like the moon,every man has his other side of existence,but it never shows up....
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