The Two Dogs...

The other day I was wasting my time on Pinterest when I found a quote by George Bernard Shaw, he said, “A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.” I don’t believe that there is one good or one evil, or that one will always rise above the other. I believe these are traits inside of us and our life is a struggle to determine to which we turn. Good people can do evil things, evil people can be good. I cannot say that the difference is a clear-cut issue. People are capable of both, take Adolf Hitler for example, a man known by all as evil. He was the first in history to start an anti-smoking ban, invented and initiated the highway system in Germany, and united a nation that was crumbing under the weight of a failing economy. Now, if any other man had done things such as these, they would be celebrated and acknowledged but it was not a good man who did these things. Somebody evil, who did some of the worst things that have ever happened in the world, did do some good. It makes one wonder what makes some one evil, “are people born wicked or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?”  as sung in one of Stephen Schwartz’s songs. This issues obviously isn’t black and white, there is no one line to be crosses. It is much deeper.