This is the story about not exactly how evil came to be, but how evil came to be us.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, our ancestors lived on another planet far, far away. Peace, harmony between men, collaboration, selflessness, equality. Happiness held a unanimous sentiment, not an individual one. All animals living harmoniously with its landscape – which was equally as important. There was no “good”, because there was no corruption. It just…was. It was what we’d describe today as a “Utopia”.

As their planet began to reach it’s capacity, it was naturally decided to look for expansion, a second planet to call home. So they found a smaller one, just like the one back home. Most of them stayed back home, but an adventurous, optimistic body of the group decided to come and find greener pastures. Bringing nothing with them but good faith and a few animals, our ancestors stepped foot on what they named “Earth” for the first time.

Little did they know, this planet already housed inhabitants.

Earth was home to a parasitic entity that would stay dormant until a host was found. Not animal, not paranormal, but somewhere in-between. Tricky as they were, these parasites could take different forms, including plantation and wildlife that our ancestors would mistaken for edibles back at home.

Like how darkness can’t exist without light, these parasites wouldn’t take its first real breathe until our ancestors became its surrogate. Feeding on their goodwill and naivety, for every pure quality that our ancestors brought, these parasites created an antagonistic counter-quality. These parasites infected the mind, with selfishness, dishonesty, and a thirst for chaos.

Some of them were completely lost and consumed to this parasite, others were strong enough to put up a fight, and most of them became a mixed bag. Torn between love and this other; harmony and this other; empathy and this other; the community of our ancestors were quickly dismantled by these parasites.

With no form of defense against such an enemy, our ancestors could only watch as everything they worked for crumbled to the ground. Helpless to the insanity, chaos ensued, they fought and killed one another, even slaughtered the animals they lived along sides as food, and developed an ethnocentric attitude with no regards to other life. The few that still held some semblance of their old identity at the time, coined this parasite “evil” as it set in motion the backwardness to their way of “live”(ing). Also naming the ones that were turned, “human” to symbolically set aside the identities they were losing; pretty soon everyone became a human.

Evil could only exist because there was “good”. Not an entity on its own, but the anti of all. Our ancestors did not create evil, but evil was created because of our ancestors.

Over the first few generations of this catastrophic event, the course of the parasites ran strong in our blood. But through a fighting will, it began to weaken and dilute in strength every subsequent generation. By consciously knowing what undesirable alien lived inside and among us, we’ve been able to make a conscious progress of separation. Now that you know the story, you – like all our predecessors that have been burdened with this story-  have responsibility of fighting the evil that runs in your blood, for yourself, for your family and so that our future generations will one day have the pure blood that once ran throughout our ancestors.

The first question I had before writing this story was, “what is evil?”. Not knowing if there was an objective or technical definition of what evil was probed me to do some research. And after a few articles and Youtube videos, I discovered an interesting and (what I find to be) fair definition. One interesting concept about this definition is that evil itself isn’t really an entity on its own, it depends on the existence of something else: what we think is “good”. That very much reminded me of the lifeforms of parasites which is what inspired the idea of “evil” being a parasitic entity.

Learning how greatly stories can affect our attitudes and approaches towards life from Thomas King and his book, made me carefully think about the motivations and reliability of the story that I was going to craft. The two qualities that I wanted to convey to my audience was a sense of individual responsibility and a strive to be better.

Reading the story outloud to my friends was something I’m unfamiliar with, so I took to some Youtubing for strategies on telling an orally engaging story. This one was in particularly helpful, especially using a world-class storyteller like Kevin Hart as a sample case. In case you’re short on time with watching the entire video, the point I found most applicable was commitment. Once I had my listeners engage, I did my best to not lose momentum orally.

Works Cited Page

What Is Evil? Prod. Apologetics Canada. Youtube. Youtube, 3 Mar. 2013. Web.
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Kevin Hart’s 3 Secrets To Hilarious Storytelling. Youtube. Youtube, 22 Feb. 2016. Web.
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