Balance / is life good?
In order to make the point I'm about to make clearer, I encourage you to read through the following verses:
How good life seemed, how sweet its rewards, how trivial this grudge or that grievance, how admirable friendship, and the society of one's kind, as, lighting a good cigarette one sunk among the cushions in the window seat - If by good luck there had been ash tray handy, if one had not knocked the ash out of the window in default, if things had been a little different from what they were, one would not have seen, presumably, a cat without a tail, padding softly across the quadrangle. The sight of that abrupt and truncated animal changed by some fluke of the subconscious intelligence the emotional light for me. It was as if someone had let fall a shade. Certainly, as I watched the manx cat pause in the middle of the lawn as if it too questioned the universe, something seemed lacking. Something seemed different.
In these thought-provoking lines Virginia Woolf charmingly illustrates the beauty of life, and the transience and uniqueness of the moment. We live in the present which is unique and is the only thing that's real. The past and the future are merely imaginative. Certainly, the things that happened were real, and the things that will come will be real when the time is right. But for now it's just you and the moment. The present is in its own right priceless. If it's a bad moment, get through it by looking at the future, because time WILL heal all wounds. If it's a good moment, enjoy it; soak up its beauty and rejoice, for you are alive.
When the moment's passed you will revisit it in your memory, and if it's a good one, you'll appreciate the pleasure you felt. If it's a bad one, you'll appreciate the experience and what you learned from it.
Life is bad - Life is good. Which one is it? It's a perfect balance. And the balance is self-sustaining.We know that the extreme is always bad. By that rationale balance would always be good.
Life is balanced. Whether it's the input and output of food, of air, the cycles of sleeping or staying up, the cycle of seasons, of day and of night, or the way in which every animal is built symmetrically, it all comes down to the simple principles of equality and balance.
I think it's safe to say that balance is good, and that life is balanced. So I come to the conclusion that life is good. In order to really make our own personal life good though, we need to find the equilibrium. With all that we do, we should try to do it rightly. The way that nature showed us. By maintaining a balance.
How good life seemed, how sweet its rewards, how trivial this grudge or that grievance, how admirable friendship, and the society of one's kind, as, lighting a good cigarette one sunk among the cushions in the window seat - If by good luck there had been ash tray handy, if one had not knocked the ash out of the window in default, if things had been a little different from what they were, one would not have seen, presumably, a cat without a tail, padding softly across the quadrangle. The sight of that abrupt and truncated animal changed by some fluke of the subconscious intelligence the emotional light for me. It was as if someone had let fall a shade. Certainly, as I watched the manx cat pause in the middle of the lawn as if it too questioned the universe, something seemed lacking. Something seemed different.
In these thought-provoking lines Virginia Woolf charmingly illustrates the beauty of life, and the transience and uniqueness of the moment. We live in the present which is unique and is the only thing that's real. The past and the future are merely imaginative. Certainly, the things that happened were real, and the things that will come will be real when the time is right. But for now it's just you and the moment. The present is in its own right priceless. If it's a bad moment, get through it by looking at the future, because time WILL heal all wounds. If it's a good moment, enjoy it; soak up its beauty and rejoice, for you are alive.
When the moment's passed you will revisit it in your memory, and if it's a good one, you'll appreciate the pleasure you felt. If it's a bad one, you'll appreciate the experience and what you learned from it.
Life is bad - Life is good. Which one is it? It's a perfect balance. And the balance is self-sustaining.We know that the extreme is always bad. By that rationale balance would always be good.
Life is balanced. Whether it's the input and output of food, of air, the cycles of sleeping or staying up, the cycle of seasons, of day and of night, or the way in which every animal is built symmetrically, it all comes down to the simple principles of equality and balance.
I think it's safe to say that balance is good, and that life is balanced. So I come to the conclusion that life is good. In order to really make our own personal life good though, we need to find the equilibrium. With all that we do, we should try to do it rightly. The way that nature showed us. By maintaining a balance.
Sometimes,
though, we can‘t see what is unbalanced about our life until we are
shown. And sometimes we know it but we are too comfortable in this
imbalance to give it up. Even knowing that it is bad for your health
or development as a person, some things just don‘t seem to be worth
giving up even if they are, or they seem too hard to give up.
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