What is life without contrast? Light and dark, high and low, hard and soft, big and small.Neither is better than the other. They simply contrast each other. If there was only one all the time, we wouldn't be aware of it. It would disappear from our experience.
Imagine a world without joy because there is no sorrow to contrast it. No pleasure because there is no pain. Without one, the other disappears from our experience.
Life, it seems, would loose it's vibrance. There would be no dance...
At the low points in life, sometimes it's challenging to remember that this low is showing me the high. That this tragedy is proof of how wonderful life is. And to realize these things in the middle of trying times has the trying times not be so all encompassing. It's never one way all the time, and that is as, as it is...
To be at ease in sorrow and to be at ease in joy because, this too shall pass.
copyright Yvonne Falk '09 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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