Well, finally, that’s all... He slowly but confidently walked to the edge and looked down. It's time! The wind gently hums its melody, known only to it alone, drops of spring rain drum merrily on the edge of the abyss, and rare, particularly stubborn rays of the sun breaking through the clouds give pleasant warmth, caressing a tired look. He looks down... It's time, I've decided everything! Only the calmness bestowed by emptiness can help, and this time I won’t be able to open my wings. The angel looked away for a moment, stumbling upon his own reflection in a small puddle of rainwater, he was dumbfounded, it was smiling...
- Who are you?
- I? Don't you know the answer to this question?! I am your “I”, your consciousness in its highest manifestation!
- But how? And why are you here?
“I want to ask why, why did you decide to fall?”
- Tired...
- What are you tired of, what could the eternal make you despair and break?
“I’ve been looking down there for almost an eternity, I can’t come to terms with it and understand why, how there can be so much evil and hatred, envy and cruelty in the hearts of the people living there!” Why can’t it be otherwise, why can’t goodness and love rule this world, giving each of us happiness and prosperity? I want it one way and no other way, but this is just a dream, a distant and, as it turns out, almost unattainable road to a mirage!
Sorry, I have to go...
- Stop! I'll show...
A coin fell at the feet of the desperate man, he bent down and picked it up, looking at it with genuine curiosity; he had never seen anything like it before, and where would you find a wooden coin these days?
- What is this, I don’t understand you, now is not the time to joke! There is no one side to it, it is meaningless...
- That’s right, a coin has meaning and any value only if there is a reverse side, and neither side can be more important than the other! So it is down there. Do you think they would notice the purity and freshness of the air of a spring thunderstorm if this thunderstorm were not replaced by a hot, scorching sun? Will the son feel joy when looking at his smiling mother, not knowing her anger? Alas, I’m sorry, but happiness and prosperity are only the ordinariness of everyday life without grief and poverty, love and generosity will lose meaning without hatred and greed... Down there, like a coin, the loss of either side will lead to chaos, and now decide and make a choice, my friend, goodbye!
The angel stood on the edge for several moments, and then, like a stone, he threw himself down, opening his wings at the last moment, flying almost over the very heads of those to whom the world was given the right to balance good and evil, basking in the rays of joy of everyone who, by doing good, gave the right to exist to evil..!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru