Conflicted

There was an ad on Foxtel recently that really rang true for me.  The narrator said “I have found that there is bad in good people, and good in bad people.”
I reckon it is great to see conflicted characters in pictures these days.  There is good in badies i.e. Thors bro, the bad guy in The Last Jedi, and Gollum in Lord of the Rings.  There is also bad in good guys i.e. House.  I love those characters.
I reckon the conflict sums up the human dilemma.  I think most of us have heard someone say “they are only human.”  Generally this is said to justify some behaviour that is out of character.  Most of us have been there.  I know of a person who summed it up this way (my words – they put it much better than I do) “the good stuff I would really like to do I find myself not doing, and yet the bad stuff I would like to run a million miles from I end up doing!”
To me that is it in a nutshell (what is it about nutshells???) Just because I aspire to something does not mean I will obtain it.  It takes work and commitment and other things. A table tennis player recently said to me that the planets must have all been aligned because what they had planned all worked out.  We may have different ways of putting things but often we mean the same thing.
Personally I think that if we want to be a good person or a bad person we should just be the best we can at it.
Now I aspire to be good, for that I need to…..
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