Right / Wrong
There can be a goal in life: to live correctly, to choose correctly, to understand what is right and what is not. Everything is simple, the system is closed. To this system, you can still add an objective view of the world and some unification of rules.
I remember in my childhood, I wanted to keep a journal with rules, where I would describe the correct rules and correct choices for my descendants. So that they would not have to worry about it, and they could just follow the rules prescribed by me and add their own. Over generations, my descendants could become a completely correct family, who would never be mistaken and accumulate all the understanding of the world. How beautiful this idea looked, perhaps even more beautiful than the dreams of Adolf Hitler. Everyone around is happy and correct. Nobody will do something wrong (ineffective) anymore.
But even at that moment, there was an internal opposition within me to life by the rules. A life where there is right-wrong (black-and-white life), is a life in which it is impossible to understand the neighbor, impossible to understand oneself.
- It is important whether you are doing right or not.
- If you are not acting according to the rules, then act.
But who will be interested in such a state:
- Why does a person want to do or do differently?
- Or does "my right" have such fatal truth, or is everything much more complicated?
If you ask yourself such questions, you can just burn out. But without this understanding, can you feel something deep, something true?
And in the system of right / wrong, our value is categorized as a well-performed right. It is not we who are valuable, but some mechanical function of ours.