Tuesday 16 October 2007

Conscience rules

I believe everyone is born with a conscience; the ability to tell right from wrong.
A conscience is that red light that blinks when you’re approaching your limit. It’s the soft little voice that speaks to you from the inside, amidst the loudness and madness.
Most of the time, you deny the existence of this “true friend”, whose only interest is what’s best for you. You do this to afford yourself the luxury of doing what you want. However one truth I have come to realize is that you can suppress this inner voice but you can never kill it. It breathes as you breathe and thus lives as long as you live too. I’ve heard people talk about a bad conscience. You were created to love others, so how come you go about killing them? It’s the same thing with a conscience, it was created to prevent evil thoughts and actions, to caution and to protect, but when you ignore its call and go ahead with your evil intentions, you say it’s a bad conscience.
Sometimes, you think you know where you’re going; you think you know what’s waiting for you around the corner; you keep up your speed and ignore all the signs. You approach a sharp bend, the red light is blinking furiously now, but you still don’t stop. You think you’ve got it all under control, and then…. BANG!!! You don’t see it coming, it’s a head-on collision, the impact is deadly and all too soon you see a blinding light as your life flashes past; then a momentary pause filled with a knowing regret, “I should have stopped”, then the darkness, and all is lost.

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