Gray

The world is not made of blacks and whites. This might be viewed as the typical words of a cynic, while some people would define it as the words of a realist. Whatever you may define it as, it IS true to a great degree. The grayness of the world, of humans in particular, is based on the subtleties of human nature, which is in turn based primarily on necessity: a human being is generally driven to perform the action that he or she deems necessary in a certain situation.This in turn forces people to perform actions that they themselves might define as morally wrong or right, which actually makes them morally grey. However, people are bent on classifying others and themselves as either being bad or good, which is, I guess, another unlovely feature of human nature.

I do not believe in a cause and effect system when it comes to morality. I believed it for a very long time, but bitter experience itself has deprived me of the safety of knowing that, if I'm a good person, bad things will not happen to me. I did my best to be a good person, however, I got served quite a bad deal at a certain time in my life. I now know that there is no force in the world that could stop me from getting in to trouble, despite my doing my best to be a 'model citizen'.

Rather than accept the Buddhist philosophy of pure pain and suffering, I tend to accept something that defines life as something in-between. Gray again. I completely agree that happiness in itself is fleeting and that it leads to more suffering. However, I tend to enjoy the here and now, when I am happy. If you are truly happy at one point, it is possible to look back at that moment and be happy again, another thing that I have found out from experience. The same goes for sadness. But I digress from the overall gray topic. Maybe I'll write my ideas on that later.