January 11, 2011

Shades OF Gray...



With the multitudes of people that we encounter throughout our life none can be categorized as simply black or white, with black denoting the "bad" and white denoting the "good". The people nearest to us are the best example of this very true theory. Our family are the people we love the most but aren't their always those little things that we just can't seem to understand. The come our best friends, they compliment us the best, we believe them to be someone exactly like ourselves but when it comes down to a fight their always is something that bugs us, that makes them different from us. But does that mean we are 'white'? Not at all. When we sit down and think about our fights we realize our own petty mistakes and prejudices. 


                                 The same theory also apply to the people we usually don't get along with or people we simple have to hate. We may criticize them all day long, find the worst in them but we never are able to ignore that little good in them that we see, sometimes on our own and sometimes forcefully. At the end of the day no matter who we love and who we hate, we are not able to compartmentalize them into good or bad only. Their is always something in between. It is at this point that we realize that we will never find the brightest shade of white or the darkest shade of black among the people we know or the people we don't know.


All that we can conclude is that the shades of gray should be the basis of of  all our judgement's as well as our prejudices.