The Western mind had been trained to see things in Binary terms.
Right/Wrong
Good/Evil
White/Black
On/Off
But, what if the Universe doesn’t work that way?
What if there can be
Right/Right?
In most stories people who lead so-called “double lives” are generally cast as immoral. Or, at the very least, amoral. They can’t possibly be virtuous. In fact, theirs is a life defined by vice. It is vulgar and without any redeeming value.
The story that I plan to work on this year during NaNoWriMo is one in which I hope to look at the possibility that Right isn’t always quite Right.
Perhaps there are degrees of “Rightness.”
And, what happens when someone finds themselves with lives that exist in two different realities must straddle that gulf where what is Good and Acceptable in one reality may be entirely different that that in the other.
Can that person be called Virtuous?
Or, would that person be a Victim? Victimizer?
I don’t know for sure where the story will lead.
That’s one of the cool things about creating worlds and stories to populate them.
They can take on a life of their own.
Perhaps, to the mountain peaks.
Perhaps, into Alice’s rabbit hole.
The journey should be interesting.
For who truly knows where Light ends and Light begins?
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