Duality

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Ancient eastern cultures believed in reciprocal interconnected relationships. The easiest example to explain this is the concept of yin and yang. Light and dark. Opposing or contrasting things that seem completely separate but in reality are interconnected creating one entity.

You can not have one without the other. Put differently, if there was only light in the world how would you even know it was light? If it was the only thing to compare itself too? There's no contrast. The same goes for dark. But by experiencing each of the sides you know what each one looks like. What each one feels like.

I say all this to help rationalize and understand human pain and suffering. For without that darkness, you may experience, have experienced or are currently experiencing, you can not know the full depths of joy and happiness. You can't know or appreciate what light is without experiencing the depth of darkness. The deeper you travel into one side, the greater you will feel the other. The trick is to make it out the other side.

That's the tricky part about loving something or someone. When it's right, it's proportional. Reciprocal. Paradoxical. The more pure a love is and the tighter the bond the more pain and grief you experience.

That in a nutshell is the human experience. To be brave enough to experience love to its fullest depths knowing full well when it leaves or passes on from our reality it's going to crater us. And we still oftentimes choose to do it anyways.

Pain and grief are unavoidable because time is undefeated. It's not all light and all dark all the time. There are seasons. There are storms that block out the sun and then soon pass to show the beauty that lies beneath. It's the duality that makes life worth experiencing. So try your best to show gratitude for the storms. Honor their darkness and ferocity. For they show you just how good the sun can feel.

Even if you don't end up purchasing anything. I appreciate you stopping by to take a look and I hope this helped you in some way. Good luck, I am rooting for you.

Sincerely,

Ryan Schmid - "Be Good, Do Good"