Why So Evil?

A group of friends smirk as their eyes trace the awkward moves of the stereotypical nerd approaching his school crush.
A girl gathers her friends as she shares an embarassing secret entrusted to her by a close one.
A class bursts into laughter with their arms folded as their teacher trip and drop her stack of books.
A student is scarred with disdain as he returns to the classroom to find his table vandalised with offensive remarks.
A boy-gang rapes a young woman who was returning home late at night from overtime work.
A mother abuses her daughter for getting raped by the new stepfather.
An orphaned kid takes his anger out on a stray puppy and kills it in front of the girl who had been caring for it.
A desperate woman poisons her family's last dinner after her husband abandons them to flee from the loansharks with their life savings.
A bitter ostracised schoolboy wields and fires a pistol indiscrimately in class before giving his head the last bullet.

A simple sneer at a loner who does not matter.
Selling out your friend's secret for popularity.
Ignoring a stranger in need.
Gloating upon the pleasure to remain in anonimity after aggravating an outcast.
Wallowing in erotic ecstacy and thrill to intrude into another's sensitive spot.
Mistreating a helpless victim who involuntarily stood in the way of one's personal happiness.
Taking out one's shame onto another who shared the same fate.
Taking one's own and loved ones to avoid being persecuted for another's wrongdoings.
Letting lose of one's own sanity after being consumed with hopelessness.

Throughout the course of history,
Humanity has often been notorious for demonstrating evil.
Is it in our innate psychology to commit transgression?
Or is it simply a selfish decision we made,
To temporarily rid ourselves from our own shame.
To throw away the very ethics we preach to others out of the window,
When it stands in our way of emotional gratifaction?

Evil, spreading across the globe like wildfire.
It destroys, it hurts, it taunts;
It tempts, it consumes, it promises.

Evil, it is no stranger to us.
It consumes us when we are at our lowest,
Promising glory, solace and pleasure.

And yet shortly after,
The happiness gained from evil abandons us.
We are left hungering for more;
The reminiscence of amoral pleasure numbing us away from guilt.

As evil becomes our habit,
It clothes us with a heightened sense of security and power.
It distances us and detaches us from our conscience and ourselves.
We lose our humanity and simply transform into beasts.
Aggressive bipedal egotistical self-serving beasts,
With clothes to distinguish ourselves,
From the others with lower intelligence.
Now we stand megalomiac with a bogus complex of grandeur.
Though truly have we truly evolved from our primate beasts?
Are we really that different?

As evil becomes our trusted companion and religion,
We celebrate in honour with ourselves.
Alas, our dear friend evil betrays us.
We are not the most supreme beings in the universe after all.
Someone else bigger comes and replaces us,
Diminishing our presence into negligible losers.
Into the same losers whom we once ridiculed for our former glory.
Amongst our aggravators stand our former victims;
And now they have the last laugh.
Our emotional vessels are filled with the torment of shame and guilt.
No one bothers to help us now after all that we had done.
We were wrong all along.

How pathetic.