The nature of things.

2015 is here to stay; no doubt about it.
I learned to accept the fact that things change, people age (including me), a good time passes to make room for a bad one… Or, is it really so?

I found this quote recently on Facebook (forgot to note the author, sorry):

“Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both–don’t get addicted to one. Don’t say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible.
Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible–not in the nature of things.
Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement.”

I like it a lot. It goes well together with my thinking about life as a combination of everything: joy, sorrow, love and the lack of it, peace and the storm. We cannot appreciate happiness until we see the other side of it. We cannot see the beauty if there is no ugliness next to it. We always need both. If we do not have black and white, we can only live in grey. Would you like to live in grey? Even in all fifty shades of it?
I wouldn’t. I rather have black and white, happiness and heartbreak, joy and sadness, than something just in between. This is life in all colours and emotions. There is always a dark night before the light comes. You need the sun to see the shadow. Just accept it and wait for things to change: they always will; this is the nature of things.

By Eva Sadowski