Probably the strangest thing

on that planet were the people.

They had surface but no volume, light as feathers.

When I inquired about their shape

they responded with these words:

 

-There is no good, there is no evil,

but there is right and there is wrong.

Our shape simply lets us flow

from right to wrong with a slight wind,

ever-changing, everlasting, the will of the Gods.

 

-How about your will? I asked

You must be able to tell right and wrong apart?

Isn’t the effect, after all, which determines the

rightness of the act? Isn’t there an ultimate purpose

to your existence? Shouldn’t your actions

be in accordance with that intention?

 

-You are naïve my friend, they responded,

for right is wrong and wrong is right. The wind

decides and who are we to doubt the wisdom of the

wind?  It is much easier to follow. That is what we do; we follow

the desires of the wind.

 

I understood at that moment the purpose of my

two-dimensional friends. In fact there was never

any purpose to their existence other than establishing

the presence of the wind. The wind existed because

of them and they existed because of the wind.

 

-Randomness my friend is the essence! One of them

yelled before he blew away.

Nonsense, I murmured, for there is always order hiding in randomness

and the essence is not the randomness but the hidden order. I

knew though that my two-dimensional friends would not

understand the concept – it is much easier to follow the path of the wind.

 

Fivos R Drymiotis 1/9/2006