H,
There is always a focus on all the things that go wrong. This is fine. It
has that dramatic effect and for some reason, tragedy sticks in the mind more
than joy, but it can be heavy on the heart. We all have the horror stories and
safety tips on how to avoid the worst parts of human behaviour, but we need
more than the darkest stories to give life value and purpose.
We need the right stories, also. There is not only the dark in the world.
There is something else, not a counterpoint but a solution. For every despot
there is a dissident, for every schemer a speaker of truth and for every goblin,
a warrior ready to stand till the fight ends. It is not that we do not have the
stories of good. It is that we do not tell them enough.
And, we forget, too quickly, the main story. There is resolution, depth,
conclusion, and light in it. It speaks to our own reality and explains both the
ease of evil in us and the push of light that propels our moral choices. It makes
us not victims of the dark but children of the fallen in need of adoption by
the true father of all things. It does not make heroes or villains of human form.
These are just archetypes we build into stories for context about conflicts,
but it does say this: here is life and here is death. Choose life. Let your story
be complete.