Creating, Beauty-seeking,
Web-spinning, Force of Nature.
“Harry, life isn’t simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. You didn’t do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn’t make it right – but it doesn’t make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become. You’ve got a good heart, son. Listen to it.”
– Dead Beat
Harry Dresden is an archetypcal Anti-hero – and you KNOW how much I love Anti-heroes! He’s also a wizard who uses his innate magical powers for the greater good. Sometimes that means bending the rules. In spite of this, Dresden remains untainted by his Power.
Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own,
and to protect their territory.
Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it.
Only humans do that.
– Fool Moon
This begs the question: Why are people adversely transformed by power (fame, money, etc)? Because, sooner or later, all of them are.
I’ve read that each of us, through the process of reincarnation, chooses our parents. Is that predeliction, then, inherent in us at birth? For instance, Netanyahu apparently gets off on employing his power to murder whenever and wherever he chooses. Was he born Evil or was it a choice he made at some point in his pathetic life? How about Bill Gates? Does he really believe he was helping those children now suffering as a result of his “vaccine experimenations” or was he born to parents who would nurture his perverse nature? There is a long list of politicians, corporate heads, families, organizations, entertainers, etc. that use their power to serve themselves. Don’t be fooled by those that blow their horn (pie hole) about their altruistic efforts – they are only in it for themselves. More money. Greater popularity. More power. “Evil only fights for itself.“
Those in power speak loudly, ceaselessly about compassion
but rarely exhibit any.
– The House at the End of the World
While in Northern California, I realized that the machinations he was using on me was a reaction to his Fear of losing me. Not me, really, his “image” of me and how that image projected on him. If I wanted to (which I didn’t) it would’ve been EASY to make his life a living Hell. It was at that moment I understood why some women liked to fuck with men’s heads. It’s a powerful aphrodisiac.
Let me remind you, I am a flawed human being. So why didn’t I take advantage of that power? Perhaps it’s not in my nature, but it wouldn’t have hurt anyone but him, right? Wrong. I would’ve turned me into someone I don’t want to be.
I write a great deal about the light and dark within ourselves and how I straddle that fence. One is defined by what one struggles for and against. I’m not PREY but neither am I PREDATOR. That is enough for me.
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