Wishing for the wickedness of others or harming others is a reality that disgusts us, yet have you ever been tempted or seduced by this dark side?Treating people as tools to achieve our goals is much easier, if you want to be the best. of the company, it simply boycotts the work of your peers. This is a much shorter way to get what you want and also one that will give you satisfaction with fewer delays. Isn’t that part of what we always covet?
The human being always seeks the immediate satisfaction of what he desires. Remembering the example above, it is of no use giving us everything, fighting and waiting months before honestly achieving our goal, if we can shorten that time, why not?This is how those who are guided by what we think are false, stop treating others as people and begin to use them as instruments: obstacles or means for their purposes.
- “We all have a dark side.
- So we need an ongoing struggle to do the right thing.
- The good thing is compassion and concern for others.
- The dark side is greed and selfishness.
- -George Lucas-.
We all know good people who have turned out to be bad, manipulative individuals, with a very bad character, who began to do what they had previously suffered in their own skin, this is the first mechanism of seduction of evil, feeling hurt by what they have. What makes us, seeing ourselves as victims of circumstances, not deserving of all the gratuitous damage suffered. Tired of all adversities, one after another, resentment takes hold of us and we become what we do not want to be.
An abused person can become an abuser. Someone who is criticized can assume the role of critic. After so much pain, we decided to stop, be stupid and act like others have with us, we don’t know that the goal of our actions are innocent people. to which we belong one day.
However, there is also another mechanism to seduce evil that leads us to treat others as instruments, not as people: to see those around us gain power with their wrongdoings We hate them because they are so lucky and so bad!All these negative emotions make us want to reproduce their actions, because our own honesty does not give us the opportunity they have.
“Beware of the stone you throw away today, it could be the same as you could fall tomorrow. -Anonymous-
If we open our eyes, we can see that we are being poisoned, it is as if we are in a bowl of fruit surrounded by rotten apples, when you do not leave this situation, these people, you also end up infected. for this evil seducer who makes us treat others as instruments to meet our needs or simply to provoke the pain we once received.
In all that has been mentioned so far, we have been in contact with grudges and this feeling of “feeling silly?”See others behaving badly and getting the results we would like to achieve. But behind all this, there is a powerful reason why the dark side absorbs us and why we stop seeing people as such and begin to observe them as objects: power.
Does taking control give us power, dominate, manipulate, lie, harm? All of this is done on purpose and sometimes inadvertently destroying the other person completely if we take advantage of it. We are now in control of the situation and this is further fueling our will. We are letting go. How far can we go?
While treating others by ignoring their feelings can do us good for a while, the truth is that in the long run it will sadden and sadden us, as human beings, we seek good because it makes us feel at peace, though somehow evil. benefits us or allows us to obtain “justice”, the result will not be the same.
“The seduction of the dark side begins with a game of diabolical flirtation. With a mixture of emotion and guilt, until we finally surrender and renounce regrets?- Antonio Crego-
The power that evil gives us seduces us, that innocent flirtation that we can maintain at first will become something that will not be reversed if we are not careful, treating others as objects can allow us to achieve what we desire, but it will take us away from balance, peace, happiness. Let us not forget that when we behave like this, there is a price to pay: that of sacrificing our being to have it. Is it worth it?
Images courtesy of Catrin Welz Stein.