Is chaos good for the soul? Can it be beneficial? Can it make you a better person? Most people consider chaos to be an evil thing.
It messes things up, makes things complicated, and is generally annoying.
It destroys that perfect picture of a situation, that storybook scene that we all walk around with in our heads, of what the world is supposed to be.
Chaos hates that story, and it does everything it can to destroy it.
Chaos has a pretty bad rap.
But what most people don't understand is the place of chaos in the world.
The average person can't see the beauty of chaos, the power, the sheer necessity of it.
Without chaos the world would be exceedingly dull.
Things would be predictable.
Nothing would ever change.
Without chaos you wouldn't have art, you can't have music or poetry, or even passion, because there is no reason to get passionate.
Everything is fine; everything is the same, no chaos, only order.
This is because chaos is about creation, not only destruction.
Chaos is the point where the balance tips, things change, and suddenly the dawn of a new thought or idea can be born.
People only have so much attention to give.
The world is only so big.
If you don't have chaos shaking up what is, you can never get to what will be.
This fact is never so clearly demonstrated as within our own minds.
Consider a mind that is nothing but order, thinking in straight lines, imagining only what is, not daring to look beyond perfect tried and true thoughts.
It's a mind lacking in creativity, because it is constrained by the very order it loves.
Chaos is the path to new thoughts and ideas.
It gives us the power to create, to imagine and to explore.
Without it we are stuck forever in a single perfect contemplation.