What makes a villain?
To be asked that at the age of 10, I would have answered like any other child. A villain is bad, a villain does wrong and a villain shall not be tolerated. But to be asked that now, what do I answer?
I've been told over and over what is wrong and what is right, the difference between good and bad.
But I suppose there really isn't a definition for good, or evil, because they are different in every person's perspective. What you and me consider horrific, well, that might be the greatest good in another's life.
In that sense, what should be the definition of bad but difference? If we all were the same then there wouldn't be a need for good and bad, for everything would be routined and we would know the exact though process of anyone who ever wronged us.
Except nobody would ever wrong us, because everyone's aspects of life would be the same.
So does that make differentiation the villain?
And if so, then what is a hero?
I have a rising suspection that what makes a villain is not their actions, but how their actions are observed.
Because if you saw a little girl push over a little boy, what you might not know is that she lost her balance and tried to hold onto anything she could before falling.
Does that ring a bell?
Because the truth, my friend, is that villains do not exist. It is perspective that does.
But that's how the story goes isn't it? The so called heroes, consumed in their own perfect life that is, perhaps, true evil in the eyes of another, forgets who needs saving the most.
The villain.
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Poetry(adj.) ephemeral; to last for only a short period of time, not to be forever. This is a book of short poems and thoughts, written by myself. For all those who need a little deep poetry in their life right now, I hope this brings you great distractio...
