Balance

Things just have a way of getting all convoluted.
No matter how careful you are
Planning and budgeting your money, time, and energy.
Something is going to come along and create chaos.

Someone once said that Nature abhors a vacuum.
I don't think so.
Nature abhors perfect serenity.
Think about it for a minute.

Your life is going smoothly.
Everything seems to be flowing seamlessly.
Then what happens?
Does it continue to go well?

Perhaps for a while.
But in the end,
Something comes along and creates chaos.
Why?

Because there has to be Balance.
Nothing is able to stand alone.
There is an opposite for everything that must follow
In order to maintain Balance.

For Balance is what it's all about.

For without Darkness,
How would we recognize Light?
Without Mistakes,
What Lessons would we learn?

Without Tragedy,
What would we know of Joy?
We must have the Bad with the Good
To be able to fully appreciate the Good.

We would otherwise have no basis for comparison,
Nor even be aware that we should appreciate what we have.
Because to us,
There would be no conceivable other possibility

Than the one before us.


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