Chapter 10 - The Duality of Dilemmas or just mindless Drivel?

And so it is that i've come to oversimplify things once more. I've discovered the beauty of the inherent duality of life. There is good and evil, right and wrong, love and hate and a long list of other comparisons of this antipodal nature. They help simplify our lives with their diametrically opposite (but still inexplicably intertwined) natures. And then you begin to use this same theory and apply it all things especially in times of depression or desperation. In any one scenario, you always have 2 choices. The beauty of 2. You can choose to dwell on your problems or choose the better option of overcoming it. So here, we see the duality of problem vs solution, otherwise known as obstacles vs opportunities. I have seen and admire those who conscientiously seek out new opportunities when they encounter problems, to turn them into a thing of genius (something which I have yet to learn and hope to assimilate into my life). This stems from the inherent nature of all things. They are all schizophrenic but that doesn't mean we have to be. When one dies, another lives; when one weeps, another consoles. When one is angry, the other remains calm. That's the only way life could maintain it's balance. So it all boils down to that doesn't it? Balance, trite but true. There can be no harmony when two people disagree or hate each other. To live your dream or the dream of others? Everything or nothing. Life or the slow death of yourself. We vacillate between the two and that brings disharmony. This is the yin and yang of dilemmas which probably explains why smart men love stupid women and vice versa. Opposites do attract afterall, don't they, so that harmony can exist. So the question is: Can good exist by itself? I think not. Good very quickly attracts the bad. They co-exist together like day and night. How can there be good if bad doesn't exist? So thankfully for the bad monkeys amongst us, we have a chance to be good. Electricity itself is the flow of electrons in one direction and protons in the opposite direction. But together, they work in harmony so that you can find your way by night...now isn't that beautiful? So I leave you with this. To live, you need to contemplate death. Each time you find yourself in a bad situation, remember there's also the upside and when you're in a good situation, remember the downside. Cest la vie!