My neurotic and analytical brain started to contemplate this.

I started thinking about the Tree of Life.
One side is Mercy, the other is Severity and the Middle Pillar is in between bringing balance.

Then I started thinking about Yin and Yang.
Two opposites that together create wholeness.
Duality coming together to complete something whole.

All of us have masculine and feminine qualities.
All of us experience pain and pleasure
All of us have within us mercy and severity.
All of us have within us light and dark.

Sometimes we judge people and label them as “bad”, but I think it is important to remember that for the most part, people are not entirely all bad nor are they entirely all good.
We are a mix of light and dark, of mercy and severity, and the goal is to find balance.

Family, work and social situations often dictate that we must have relationships with people who we may not necessarily like.
It can be hard to function, especially as a sensitive person, around someone that we see as “bad”.

So, if I’m ever feeling like someone is a “bad” person, I like to step back and see them as a whole person and to look for the good in them.
Yes, some people are filled with more dark than light, but I believe there is some light in there.

I also believe there is a reason for their darkness.
Maybe they were abused or experienced some trauma in their life.
Maybe they are coming from a place of scarcity instead of abundance so they are in a constant mode of taking so that they feel like they have enough and it comes across as greed.
Maybe they have such low self esteem that they overcompensate for it and they come across as a selfish or arrogant person.
It could be a variety of factors that cause a person to come across as “bad”.

Also, if I ever feel like I don’t “like” someone, I try to understand why.
Sometimes we are seeing something in someone that we actually don’t like about ourselves.

The reverse is also true. Sometimes we put people up on a pedestal because we view them as “good”.
But everyone experiences dark emotions, even if only occasionally.

Nobody is an angel.
Nobody is completely evil.
We are all flawed.
We are all just human.