The world

A friend sent me this question.
A question that appeared in his social media feed.
If you could rid the world of one thing, what would it be?
He was intrigued by the commentary the question inspired.

It’s about what you’d expect.
Liberals, conservatives, Trump, Obama…
And it devolved from there.

Here’s the thing,
To rid the world of anything, is to rid the world of everything.
Do you see?

Without a yin, there is no yang.
Without black, there is no white.
Without good, there is no evil.

That thing you hate is you.
That thing you abhor, you actually adore.
Wait, what?

Your thing is nothing without its opposite.
Your declared truth is nothing without an antithetical adversary.
To say “I love this” is to say “I hate that”.
Your devout declaration requires that abomination.
It’s all the same thing.

Heads and tails?
Take one away,
And the coin is gone.
See?

The tension is the tool.
It’s what we use to declare and define.
You can’t say this, without that.
It’s the that-ness, that defines the this-ness.
The tension.

If you don’t want evil,
Don’t declare something as good.
Declaring goodness requires evil.
Just as the declaration of evil manifests goodness.

So, if that is true…
Do you perpetuate evil to manifest more goodness?
Of course not.
But people would have you believe the opposite.
See the slight of hand?

If you don’t like something, stop being its opposite.
Stop the declarations.
Anything less only manifests more of what you abhor.

Goodness doesn’t rid the world of evil.
Goodness is evil’s twin.
They live together.
Duality is divisive.
Let the urge to declare pass.
Accept something simpler.
Purer.

Namely,
You are that…