electric grays

In the last month or so I have established two things: 1. man was made for more than to just work whatever job is handed him until he dies. There is something distinct inside of man that whithers when the desire for a purpose at a core level is ignored. 2. and part of the glory of man is that he will hurt those he loves. It is inescapable. No matter how intentional you are and how good you try to be, you will fail, horrendously, at some point.

And that is ok.

It is not right or good, but there is life afterwards. And sometimes, that is all we can ask for. At some point, we need to sift through cliches that we have heard all of our lives and decide what they mean and what they are worth with flesh on them. Things like, "nobody's perfect" and such. If they are true, we can build on them. And that is why I believe in truth, both static and flexible. Not all truth applies everywhere to everyone equally. But there are rules and no matter how you try to flee limitations and laws, as a member of the human race they fall just the same throughout the years on you and everyone.

To refuse to believe in absolutes and yet attempt to build a life at all makes no sense. We don't want the judgments and accountability of absolutes like right and wrong, but we want the security of believing the sun will come up and gravity will continue. But what if ethics is really more of a science than we ever thought? What if the laws of physics and the laws of morality were brothers from the same beginning?