There are perfectly good reasons to encrypt messages and information. And sometimes the reasons, though mutually exclusive, are conflicting in choice. It is a tricky dilemma to choose between teasing and hiding, but for the better of my sake, I'd have to choose to latter in defense for the former.

Everything begins and ends with levels. Even at the earliest stages of development, we form our own elevated platforms whilst we learn to stand up tall on them. But we know the levels are never equal. Some decide to build theirs much earlier than others and yet premature development has only inhibited and impeded their full potential. Others have brilliantly constructed an elevator, one that goes up and beyond, like a one-way rocket trip to the moon, but they too have overlooked the fundamental reason behind these levels we build. Others bend the rules and take up the pieces to build a fortress around them. By the time we notice these deviants, unveiling them from the fortress only reveals a still image, a memory of the past which no one remembers.

Whatever your kind of level and more importantly, whatever your level, the sting of life is that you can only, as much as you want to, interact with others of mutual levels. Those beneath you can only lust for your unprecedented notice of them just as you look dreamily skyward to those who have skyrocketed away. And while many say you should be contented with your own levels, there are others who try to climb up yours. And at first, you are welcoming for you see no harm in receiving a guest. But overtime, it is increasingly apparent that there is hardly room for two on your platform and your 'friend' seems to have trouble balancing on this new level that is yours. And in time, the inevitable will happen and you ought to give a forceful lunge at this intruder (a simple nudge wouldn't work; it'd just climb back up) and cower in your own fear of balancing.

And as we all struggle to protect our own levels, it is an ironic thing that we will never know if we will be better off at another level. We can only keep building, all the same denigrating those below and worshiping those beyond.

And at my level, it is a funny thing how encryption is no longer used as a game to induce excitement. It is now a ploy to avert danger and to build a barrier around my level.

All the while, I hope I'm level-headed.