Away With Evil

It is our belief that evil should not exist that makes something like psychotherapy a possibility.  In other cultures, evil -- or anxiety -- are not questioned.  People feel sad.  They are in pain.  Life is less happy than they might sometimes wish.  But it is not a crisis.  It is simply how life is.  For us, that acceptance is less available, and so we resist how life is, saying it should instead be different.  No pain, no sadness.  Away with the evil.  Make it better.  Make it happy, or failing that make it not hurt.  It is self-confident and maybe even hopeful to think that we can, by wanting it so, make life change.  Or maybe instead of hopeful, it is foolish that we are.