by Marshall Brown

Created on: August 02, 2008   Last Updated: November 06, 2008

We come into this world with a longing to learn and absorb as much information as possible to build our own diverse character. Individuality sparked by how we perceive the world around us, and how we relate to the events taking place or have taken place in our lives. How we react to society, and what information we choose to build upon relates to how we shall advance in the growing world around us.

All are born good, we have religious dynamics that pursue the fact that we are not born free of "sin". Yet, what child can be seen as evil or wrong when growing in their own way? As individuals, we all grow either faster or slower toward doing better for ourselves and those around us, or we have our spirits broken. The outcome of our livelihoods comes down to how we perceive the world in which we live.

It would be liked to believe, by those in power, that we have a need to create demons so we can feel safe ourselves, for our own shortcomings. If we rely on others to create an illusion that the world has gone mad, and their is nothing to do, but to ride the snowball downhill and watch the world fade away. We then have deceived ourselves into believing that we are inherently evil.

I have no reason to believe or to assume that any of us think that way. The seemingly rejoice of the media in destructive events, is diminishing. World opinions are changing rapidly from a world of governed right and wrongs, good and evils, to a more individualistic basis of thinking. I rant and rave all day long, my whole life trying to tell people that we should all think for ourselves based on realistic conclusions, formatted by conceptualized thought, rather than to formulate opinions based on non-realistic views.

Views are just that, pictures painted by one man's mind as of how to view the world. Good is in us and is a natural part of us. We have the ability to create and destroy, whether we "end-up" good in the end is every-one's freedom to explore. Thoughts do not make us evil, no matter how bad. Actions determine a realistic base to formulate an honest opinion of just how well we have clung to the inheritance bestowed on all creation....... Goodness!

So always remember, the information that you absorb from your daily routine to conversations you have do really make all the difference. Our brain is a peculiar instrument, what we hear, read, and think about, stews in our brain like a pot of mixed vegetables, trying to sort each piece by the information received and how we perceived the moment. Our brain is constantly trying to base facts on reality, how we perceive reality, construes the formula coming to our own logical conclusion. How can our brain try so hard, naturally, to ward off bad decision making, and mankind not be good? How do you perceive? What do you conceptualize as to what good is? You are an individual, you are good, we are all good...... but it's what we do with the gift of goodness that matters most.

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