Stuck in Eden
We try to pretend that hell is not real; we fear it because we have different visions on what hell looks like, but really what is it supposed to be? We use the darkness of night to be the vision of hell. During this period in our lives being confided and putting our lives on hold is our living hell. I am in the middle of watching a Korean show on Netflix called Strangers from Hell, also known as Hell is Other People. Now the title itself made me think. I think that statement is true. Not only do we create environments where we are consumed by what we believe is hell, but as humans, we can be the hell that we fear.
The young man in this story is a writer of crime fiction novels mind you he has not published yet, he moves to Seoul, Korea for a job that a friend of his has offered him because he can’t afford much he goes searching for an affordable place to live, he finally finds a place called Eden residents. The residence is cheap, small, and dirty, but he is desperate. Right away, you can feel a sense of it be the equivalent of living hell. It is eerie, and you get to know that the neighbors are a bit odd. This show is full of moments where your hair stands up for sure, but even so, I am finding a hidden message in all this. Weird events start to occur, which leaves him completely frightened.
There are so many aspects that are within us, which leads us down the savage road? One of the reasons I believe we can become hell is by not liking being told what to do. In our minds, we are to make decisions on how we live our lives, and there is no way we will let anyone else tell us otherwise. That is when we become scary, we grasp on so hard to that idea; it can lead to so many horrid decisions.
We have to focus on what feeds that anger, We become insane in our rage, and like the animals, we concentrate on our target and wait.
Thou Shall not Kill the 5th commandment; I bet there are so many times where we tell ourselves I would never do that; killing is not just the physical act of taking someone’s life words can kill as well. You can kill someone’s spirit with only a few words. So, let’s say that they are times we fail to follow that commandment. Unfortunately, killing with words we get away with it, we don’t even stop to think about what it does to someone. Words are representative of our voices; we should keep them loving hatred seeps within their core without even trying.
We came from the Garden of Eden that was our home, but with temptation, it became our hell. We hid from our nakedness, how many times do we try to hide from our sin? We become strangers to ourselves. It is a cycle of the upmost necessary outcome; we need to lose ourselves to start a new.
We can leave hell, but it is up to us to go the distance and take a stand between good and evil that is within us all.
Can we do it? Are we up for it? We will have to wait and see.