Two Sides

I just finished reading the book “Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of the West.” For those of you not familiar with it, it is the life story of the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz.” The theme of the novel is the nature of evil.
The story has always been told from Dorothy’s perspective. She views Glinda as the “good witch” and the Wicked Witch of the West as evil. However, when the story is told from the Wicked Witch’s perspective, we see the story completely differently. The Wicked Witch is not actually wicked at all and Glinda isn’t actually good. When you hear more than one person’s perspective on a situation, you can get closer to knowing what really happened. From now on whenever someone tells you something that happened to them, just remember, there are two sides to every story and then there’s the truth.