Are 'good' and 'evil' birth signs?

The article asks an important question of whether a human is evil or good by birth or does he/she slowly becomes one in the course of time and with the situations around him/her.
Picture this. You are just born… very much alive, crying and naked. Immediately people around you start to find similarities in your face with that of your parents. "Eyes look like father", "nose is just like mother" and if you go little further, granny even find your cheeks pretty much like a distant uncle whom your parents haven’t even heard before. But that’s how things are at the time of birth. Everyone excited, everyone rejoicing and ecstatic.

As you grow old, you are categorized as mischievous or shy, or outgoing, or introvert, or sensitive and slowly but surely a pretty clear picture of whether you are good at heart or evil comes to fore. People analyze you by the way you talk, walk, act, laugh, look and behave in general life. Are you trustworthy enough so that your friend can share a secret with you, or out of jealousy, you steal your classmate’s lunch box which was much better and colorful than yours. Such incidents show what you really are. Every move of yours suggest a pattern of the mind, a living showcase of how you react to different situations, what thoughts occur at split second time, that determine your personal view of things around you.

If you are to think what makes you good or bad, does only the surroundings that you are brought up in the real cause of what you are? Or was it a born thing that you will be for the rest of your life? Is it possible for you to change your nature and not just attitude towards life in general? The answer is more often a big "NO". Then it proves that you are either a sinner or a saint at birth. But instead, there are also many such examples where people have changed through time. Evil men have become disillusioned and made truth and honesty their ultimate savior. Men have changed the course of history in the metamorphosis between the above two states of mind.

Unlike animals, humans have evolved over time thanks to their super intelligent brains. But there are 2 sides to every story and so this same intelligent brain has caused misery, pain and sufferings to everyone else around them. You as an individual are a part of this whole society. So both these phenomena of the inside you and the outside world work on you to create what is the essential "You". More you look into yourself, the more you realize how each situation carves you into an individual. It is a situation which creates an image of you, how you deal with it, what actions you take and that is what makes you "good" or "evil"!
   By Sapan Shah
Published: 3/6/2004
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