"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." --G.K. Chesterton
There are a lot of things that I could say on a blog like this. There are things I want to say, but can't. There are things that probably should be said, but would be demeaning. There are such a shopping list of things I want to say out of sheer frustration, but my conscious always seems to catch me at the last moment and pulls me from creating more dragons and instead creates more happy times and "happily ever afters." It's not too bad to have Him as a narrator.
It's just really frustrating to keep it in. I could tell someone, but who is really to trust? William Shakespeare once said:
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none."
And while I can't say I or anyone else has really followed Shakespeare's advice fully, something gnaws at me. Why must humanity be like this? I have watched way too much Criminal Minds for my own good. I love that show, but, in a fictional sense, it depicts how much potential evil there is in our world. For as much good as there is, there is always some form of evil to counteract it. A place like college is infested with both. We as people are both. The things that people do to each other are awful and we are all guilty of it.
This is not meant to be a sermon, a preaching, a deep word that the whole world should hear. I am in no position to speak about this. I can't preach about this and this is simple truth that everyone knows, but few want to admit it as true.
I had a dream a couple night ago about middle school. It's kinda funny when I think about because middle school was home to so many (and some of the most awkward and painful) memories. It's weird that I would even think about this. One would think that I'd want to try to suppress this as much as I could, but I have failed to do such a task for five or six years now. As awkward as I felt, I can't help but think about all the memories that I had there and how all these moments (the good and the bad) have help transform an awkward, gullible seventh grader into the person I am now.
Evil is all over the place. Middle school, high school, college. It's a battle to stay composed through all of it and control is constantly lost and the evil wins. The dragons are always there. Dragons are everywhere, like it or not, and they take the shape of friends, co-workers and others.
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding (the evil doer)."
---Fyodor Dostoevsky
The holidays could not have come at a better time...
