Health- guttering
I have been doing a lot of thought today on the topic of 'balance'...
The pre-Columbus Native Americans believed that balance was vital to all factors of life and it was the basis for everything from what time they woke in the morning to how they scheduled warfare and raids.
Traders were always considered to be in balance... they would bring items that were rare and fascinating and take away items that the locals thought were ordinary and every day. Both parties believed that they were getting the best of the matter, the best of the deal... and bringing balance by evening out the 'ordinary' with the extraordinary.
I wondered about balance in my own life.
We all strive hard to stay out of the 'dark places' in our lives and strive for light and enlightenment.
I think, or rather... I have come to think that we should instead welcome the dark into our lives... the hard times and the tears are needed to balance the bright times and the laughter so that we can be complete people.
If all you know is absolute joy then chances are that you will never be happy because you will not be able to appreciate what you have... you will never know compassion because you could not relate to sadness. You would be out of balance and incomplete as a person.
At the same time, if all you have ever known is pain and sorrow then you would be bitter and dark and seek to spread the darkness because you would be enraged that light would exist and you had never experienced it and for that reason you, too, would not know compassion and would be incomplete and out of balance as a person.
I think that having an incurable illness might be a blessing... a way to find balance, and I will explain why.
I have heard many times "you are so upbeat for everything you go through", "you are so strong"... and I know of many others that are going through worse who are considered 'inspirations'.
Why would it be that those who are going through such terrible times are seen as strong and up-beat? These are the very people who have every right to be bitter and dark.
It is because illness brings balance... it tempers the brightness with darkness and allows the sufferer to fully enjoy the tiny joys that many overlook in life.
Balance brings clearer vision...
The thing is that you do not have to be chronically ill to find balance, all you have to do is accept that dark days happen and instead of ignoring them you allow them to balance you. Remember your tears in your laughter and remember your joys in your pain and let the balance help you find the way.
Those with a Chronic Invisible Illness tend to learn this lesson the hard way, but are better people for it and can often laugh when in pain and cry when happy because they know that every moment of life is a gift and not just a stepping stone to the next moment.
Today was hard, but I am thankful I am still here and cannot wait for what tomorrow will teach me.
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