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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Balance

I believe that balance is the sempiternal in this life; a permanent fixture which will never be abolished, lest the world comes to an end. As sure as there are righteous men alive in the world today, evil men do still exist; conflict coexists with peace within an intricate cocktail of circumstances. It is apparent that balance is omnipresent in all aspects of life, even within the realms of Physics, where matter even has its opposite: the antimatter. For every positive there has to be a negative just hiding around the corner, and it is such with human life.

We go through ups and downs, but in fact the good and the bad coexists in our lives. Positive or negative occurences are simultaneously inherent in our lives, leaving everything to a matter of perception. When we are going through more of a positive, the negative is diminished; when we are going through the negative, the positive is diminished. The equilibrium of this positive-negative function is the resultant emotion or degree of negativity in our life. How each and every person deals with it, however, is another issue. Logically, this should be where the theory of emotional quota is rooted from; how a person deals with circumstances in which the negative completely outweighs the simple positive occurences in life.

The above deduction might sound like a mechanical, maybe even emotionless derivation of an intricate aspect of human life, but I assure you that I am just a plain (and often emotional) person trying to make sense of his constant struggle against negative emotions. I'm happy at present, but I realized that even in happiness there still exists underlying negativities beyond the external self. As much as we (or maybe it is only I) dislike to admit, even in the worst of crises we can still find many positives. It is only a matter of perception, maybe one's emotional quota?

It will always be the case in which humanity is struggling to wipe out all the negavities, but with the definition of negative ranging so widely throughout communities and even families, there is only one and only one way to solve this. The way lies in the path less travelled.