HARMONISING THE EFFECT OF EVIL- BY CLEMENT ERNESTERICK

"You owe me nothing, I owe you nothing; but, still, we owe each and all humaneness; fraternal love and charity", Mwaka Ernest.

Boyowa Ede: Well I found your musings about the nature of our relationship with our fellow men and the collective debt that binds us to be prescient, if only human kind embodied such sentiment,alas sages have echoed the same disappointments over history and the mistake of people with such ideals in this world is to assume their fellow men wish to also live in that world. I've rid myself such illusory views on life, there exists moments where it is true but it remains few and far between

Have you not experienced this same reality,or do you choose to maintain such magnanimous views regardless?

 Clement Ernesterick: I have experienced it, just as you've put it "...I found _your_ musings about the nature of our relationship with our fellow men..." But what magnanimous views of mine are you talking about?

 Boyowa Ede: I'm referring to the fact that you still stay optimistic about human nature i.e that we would be good or kind to each other when you experience the exact opposite repeatedly.

There's no utopia where we all live harmoniously or seek the good/well-being of one another and people who hold hope or belief that it could work that way suffer most in this cruel world.

Clement Ernesterick: Disappointments are ever there, will always be there but having a good heart no matter the heartbreaks, is the deal. But we shouldn't be careless at it... God also is considerate.

The contradictions of human life shouldn't be a reason for others to live recklessly, with cynicism and indifference. We can't all possess the same heart, but a measure to each is given.

 I've read these contradictions, the far extreme dualities in Eccl 8,9; dealt with the same in real life and have lived it through. Life gives no fuck!!!

The River and the Source gives an answer to what we are pondering over ...

 Boyowa Ede: Indeed it doesn't but I guess to each his own, I've just recently come to the conclusion that my idealistic mindset only harms me in the face of bitter reality.

Clement Ernesterick: I've learned to live with the reality but keeping in check my ideals.

 I will one day tell you the truth, bitter truth of this life.

 In the play "Betrayal in the City" by Francis Imbuga, the playwrite opines that 'when the madness of an entire nation disturbs a solitary mind, it is not enough to say that the man is mad'. In other words, what you've observed that makes you sick; the cold ends of the other side of the coin contrasted with the other side which should reflect how all sides should be, have us all else casted our eyes and, likewise, is but a disturbing issue. It for sure, can thrust a sane mind into imbalance but these variety of diversity the life serves us with are, to some extent, what gives life meaning and it's beauty and completeness: the perfectionism that might have escaped the description that eludes the fathoming power of mind.

Boyowa Ede: Hmmm I still consider this a coping mechanism in the face of a harsh reality. Romanticizing the maladies of our society as part of the beauty of life is a necessary cope but does nothing to eradicate or mitigate the problems. In a world where you can easily become a homeless person or despondent simply because you choose not to play by the unfair and cut throat rules conventions dictate isn't a shade of grey in the colour of life,it is outright wrong and illogical but it is what it is,this is the way of the world,the savage rules of the jungle and it can only disturb the civilized mind because it assumes itself in sync with other "civilized" minds but the contrast reality offers of these other minds is jarring and incompatible with his mind and so he must discard such lofty assumptions in order to thrive,or secure his place higher up the hierarchy and then live benevolently.

© CLEMENT MWAKA ERNESTERICK: I got no other word but to concur, amigo.

- Kenya