Whenever my brother can't sleep at night because he is scared, my mom simply tells him to take God's name. This somehow makes the darkness less scary for him, and my brother, like me since I was young, drifts off. However, whenever my brother is too
jumpy, my mom tells him that the Shaitan will come and my brother somehow manages to fall asleep.
This is one simple incident in the everlasting ferocious battle between good and evil, fought through books and movies, stories and buildings. But what makes good good, and evil evil?
In stories, God, or the epitome of good, created everything and the Shaitan, or the epitome of evil, destroyed bits of this creation. So quite simply, good is creation and evil is destruction.
I have been brought up with clearly outlined ideas of creation and destruction. Very plainly, I've been taught to see destruction of lives as inhumane and creation of opportunities that better life as empathetic and humane.
The mass outcries against cruelties toward any form of life come from an education and upbringing like mine. This crowd is made up of youngsters who were at one point taught to differentiate between destruction and creation. Funnily enough, the most simple solution to all of today's devastation lies in teaching every child the difference between destruction and creation: something even LEGO blocks can teach.
Raavee Tripathi is a seventh grader at Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. She enjoys dancing, reading dystopian books, debating, playing sports, and just surfing the internet. Her ambitions do change, but her current goal seems to be re-reading the Harry Potter series for the 15th time.
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