Opposites

Opposites. When I think about opposites I usually think of positive and negative--good and bad. I was challenged recently to give up on that notion. To appreciate the idea of opposites so much that I find myself in both extremes and therefore find less need to focus on how different they are and focus on how necessary they are. We would not experience pleasure in the same way if we had never been in pain--could we really know love if we had never had our hearts broken--hunger--I find that food tastes so much better when I let myself really get hungry--some how the need for food makes the food taste even better.

I will look for opposites today--I will try to find myself in both sides of what is not alike--I will try to appreciate what each extreme does for the other--in doing this I hope to find a lot more middle ground in life. I always feel better when I am in "middle ground". For me, extremes so often lead to an imbalanced way of thinking and feeling. Balance is a wonderful thing--I just feel that we have to see, understand, and even appreciate the extremes to find the comfortable balance somewhere in the middle.

Take care,
MissT