Right and wrong. We live our lives by this. The vast majority of us try to do the right thing. We obey the laws of gravity and most of us obey the laws of the land. Indeed, some of us crusade for what we believe is right, while those on the other side of the world may be crusading for the exact opposite. They’re also crusading for what they believe is right.
What if all these opposites are in fact part of one big picture? What if you can’t have right without wrong? Well, of course you can’t. (Even if you use semantics as your slave and start creating words like ‘unright’, the end result is the same; you still have polarity.) Because unless there is a wrong, there can be no right. In that case, what we would have would be ‘is’. It isn’t right or wrong. It just is.
I’m a right versus wrong type of person. There is a way that something should be done. Then I gradually (or sometimes uncomfortably quickly) realise that there are a number of ways that task can be done, and who am I to decide that my way is right? But this takes me time. I start from the ‘this is the right way to do this thing’ perspective and gradually morph to ‘there are a number of ways to do this thing’. and finally to ‘there may be a better way than mine’. That doesn’t mean I’m an overly confident person or am arrogant. I think it means I have a blinkered view to start with then expand slowly, in my own time, when I do not feel threatened.
That’s why, for me at least, I am now aiming to steer clear of the thinking that there are right foods and wrong foods. I’ve done all that, I have a propensity for it, but in the long run it didn’t help all that much. So what if, instead, I could see each food in a place (a relatively fluid place) on a sliding scale? There would be foods I would eat more often (those nearer the top of the scale) and foods I would decide to consume less often (those at the other end). I use the term fluid because as I learn more I can then easily change a certain food’s place on the scale. Nothing is written in stone. There is no right and wrong.
Perhaps stepping around this right-versus-wrong mentality will make everything, not just eating, easier. I’ll keep you posted.