We live in a world of order with a pinch of chaos thrown to maintain the balance. Picture ourselves as one side of the Yin-Yang. And when you picture, didn’t you just pick the white side with the black dot. After all it has been drilled into our heads that order is good and chaos is evil. Who told you that white is the good color?
Your opinions and thoughts have all been primed since your birth to align with the accepted normalcy. There are no original thoughts, every single thread of thought is a child of two or more parent threads. But then the moment this thread of loose thought shows signs of moving towards the chaos island, it is stared down so hard that we bent our heads and prune our thoughts to stay within the accepted boundaries.
From our birth we are fed what is right and what is wrong. We are bombarded with these directions at every turn that we make. We are so tightly boxed in that there is just enough air to live by, and not enough to ask Why? Soon we grow so accustomed to the box that we stop struggling and accept the box to be our world. We struggle just so much as to make a breathing space.
Again the process repeats, there is a new life and suddenly we see them to be vulnerable without a box around them to protect them. So we forget the breathlessness we once felt and build a wall around the new life. Pushing the walls from the outside inspite of their struggless so that we can be sure that they are as protected as we are.
There is a sort of bell curve to our struggles to chaos, we begin helpless, purely dependent on the ones that came before us. Eventually we see the world around and realize that the ones we were depending on were pushing walls around us, slowly creeping them in. So we start to struggle and at a virile youthful age we get a peek in to the chaos outside and that’s the tip of bell. A few at that point break to form the droplet of chaos inside the Yang. The rest are either overwhelmed by the freedom outside or succumb to the push from outside.
But then a question pops up, if we are in the Yang with chaos as a droplet, wouldn’t there be a place with order as a droplet – the Yin. Would that be as balanced as the Orderly Yang. Would that mean that it is possible to embrace the chaos and still find balance just as we have eked out with Order.
“better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven” – Lucifer in Paradise Lost, John Milton
Hypocritus Dominus 