Are you good or bad?

If someone asked you that, what would you answer?
Most people will say good - unless they want to sound cool, in which case they'll say bad. But most will say good. So, are most people good, then?

Here's the thing. Good and bad are relative to the context of the situation, and more importantly, to the observer. There is no clear, commonly agreed-upon definition of good and bad - not that I know of. Every definition that exists was handed down by people, shaped by their own experience. Which means you get to write your own good and your own bad too.

Think of rain. It's a blessing to the farmer and a ruined afternoon to the couple getting married that day. Same rain. The sky didn't decide to be good or bad - we did, depending on where we happened to be standing.

But the reality is a little stranger than that. Everything is good and everything is bad - at least until it happens. And nothing is good and nothing is bad if it doesn't happen at all. It can only be defined in the moment it arrives. Before that, every possibility is still open; the same choice can save you or undo you, and you won't know which word to reach for until it lands. Good and bad aren't sitting inside the thing itself. They're verdicts we deliver afterward, in a single moment. And that moment - most of the time - is in your own hands.

Maybe there's a line somewhere. A few things that feel wrong no matter where you're standing. But most of what we rush to label isn't anywhere near that line. Most of it, we freeze into good or bad long before we've even let it happen.

Life's journey is exhausting for the definition makers. They spend it sorting the world into boxes that keep breaking open. But it's joyful for the fluids.
So be fluid. In your definitions, in your good, in your bad, in your everything - and so in your nothing too.

Be fluid.

-Meghraj