WHO IS BAD?

Have you ever taken your time to answer the question "Who is bad?" If you ever had, try remembering - what was the answer you gave to the question? If you've never, pause... and don't continue reading till you get a definition.
Recently, the thought of "who's bad and who's good" has filled my head and finally, I've been able to convince myself with the answers that I got.
Now, who is bad? (I hope you have your own definition in mind already.)
If you're one who believes in God and His existence, it's very easy for you to say a bad person is one who doesn't attest to the existence of God, who goes against all norms, rules and principles that have been laid down by God Himself.
But wait... does his free thinker mate sees him as a bad person? Or don't you know human beings tend to like and/or have an attraction towards someone who they share the same thoughts, beliefs and ideologies with? Meaning, the same foolish person who's very easy for you to call 'bad' is the same wise person among fools who his fellow atheist sees as free and good.
Okay, that's one.
You are a man, straight and homophobic and you always wonder why another sane man would feel no attraction towards women and would rather lock lips and do it with his fellow man, despite the fact that we have lots of starved women existing on the surface of the earth. As much as you used to love Sam Smith and his music, your anti-buggery nature has made you stop loving and listening to his music because you don't see a convincing reason why you should listen to the music of someone who's gay; someone who's bad.
But... what would the man's gay partner think? Would he see him as a bad person, or, rather as a saviour - who came to him to relieve him of his urges when he was full and almost everyone around him stigmatised and hated him for his sexuality? Now, someone who has always loved Lil Kesh that they're showing Fake Love, F*cking Sh*t Up and is into Gbese is now the one that has loved Sam Smith because he wants his partner to Stay With Him and Lay Him Down.
Again, that's another one.
It's very easy to say almost everyone hates thieves because one way or the other, we've suffered from their inhumane acts. Though, a large percentage of the people who hate them are thieves themselves. Or what are you if you misuse and embezzle public funds?
What are you if you take meat from your mum's pot when she's not aware or not looking; meat-taker? 
What are you if you take your classmates pen without him knowing and you fail to return it; pen-taker?
No, I'm afraid 'thief' is what you are too!
But you know what? That man who stole your laptop and phone only sold it to pay his children's school fees. Now, do you think his children see him as 'bad'? No, I don't think so.
If I had met someone who got me a 'bad' Mercedes -AMG GT R from funds that were 'Dasukied', do you think I'd have seen the good person as bad?
If your mum had seen you take the meats the times you took them, would she have rubbed your head and called you good? But would your stomach and tongue have called you bad?
You needed to write when Prof. was in class, but what if Funmi had seen that it was one of the pens that she wanted to sell that you 'took', would she have seen you as good, considering the fact that your action just hindered her chances of being entrepreneur of the year? I'm afraid not.
Okay, one more to go.
The woman you met when you were young, fell in love with, did everything to please, worshipped, adored and cherished but played kite with your love, broke, shattered and burned your heart and gave you the most terrible emotional and psychological torture of your life; I suppose she's a bad person to you, isn't she?
But do you think a man who suffered the same fate as you but was found by some woman who loved, supported, healed and gave him a reason to live again wouldn't think that she's the best person in life?
The same woman who did that to you did this to him. To you, she's bad but is she to him?
Okay, that's all. I promised it was going to be the last one, right?
And now, do you get my point? I suppose you have.
But for the sake of people who haven't - I've only been trying to prove that maybe nobody is actually bad. So, why do we hate people?
Like I've learnt, I'll share - "don't hate the sinner but the act, because every sinner has a future and a saint, a past."
The worst person might end up becoming good and the best person might end up becoming bad.
So, never hate the person but you're free to detest as much as you like, the act - it's logical, safe and very acceptable.
Of course, this is not a way of trying to justify bad and sinful acts. I wouldn't want to do that. Rather, it's a medium of trying to make us see things in a way that is less harmful for us.
Yes, maybe nobody is actually bad but what they do is just really bad.

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