The Good in the Evil.

"I keep my ideals, my hopes and my dreams, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

- Anne Frank

This is one of those quotes that will never fail to send shivers down my spine, every single time I read it, considering the circumstances during which Anne Frank said this. It baffles me to no end and leaves me so flustered because I cannot, for the life of me, understand how she could have felt this way.

This world has always confused me with its odd ways and strange people. Humans, sometimes behave in ways that make me wonder if I’m human too, if I’m one of them. I don’t feel like I am sometimes, because I can’t comprehend our way of life. I can’t figure out the formula.  What I mean is, I can’t seem to be able to put myself in Hitler’s complicated web of a brain and understand what exactly he was thinking when he decided to kill the Jews and put them through concentration camps. Nor will I ever be able to understand how you can still have faith in humanity after hiding in an annexe for two years followed by being put in a concentration camp and being hunted down for being a Jew.

Anne Frank genuinely did believe in humanity though – the good in humanity to be more precise. She believed in the light despite all the darkness that encircled her. She wasn’t afraid to dream and hope for a better life, for a better tomorrow. She wasn’t afraid to hope for happiness and peace. She seemed to have been oblivious to the cruelty, the killing, the insensitivity, the inhumanity all around her, or she just chose to be oblivious. She saw past it. She saw the good in the evil that was tucked in so deep, one would think it didn’t exist. She believed in that good. I wonder if anybody thinks like her today and if there are people like her in the world today. There must be. If there are, then I’ll keep hoping.