And such is life.

[Ian Smith]

Life is simultaneously wonderful and horrible, beautiful and ugly, good and bad, simple and complex. Like a coin, with two sides to every situation, to every moment, to every perspective. Such is life.

Taking this into account, how will you view life? Will you stick to one side of the spectrum, putting your full trust in the realities of whichever of the dualities your choose?

Or perhaps there is another way. If one is aware of the dualistic nature of life, then that individual can step back from the coin and enjoy the flip, rather than be distracted by which side it lands on.

Apply this to life and all of its affairs.

There will be good days and bad, storms and rainbows, hard times and prosperity, success and failure, growth and destruction, life and death.

Tomorrow is going to be a bad day for me, but today was great, and so was yesterday, and the day before.

As they say, "this too shall pass". Remember this, nothing ever remains the same. Happiness through stability will never be achieved, embrace the turbulence and move with it, there is where you will find happiness. The good times always end, but the bad ones never last. So throw your hands up and enjoy the ride.

Goodnight everyone.
Be well.
Ian.

[Pav]

I smiled.

[Giacomo]

I just want to snuggle up next to Ian. Is that wrong?

Beautiful words there though man. Truly inspiring and profound.

You never cease to amaze me.

[BuddhaBill]

Excuse my lack of a better phrase to describe this, but...holy shit. You are so inspiring it's amazing! I don't know if the universe has any rhyme or reason to it, but I read this post at the right time. I have been in a dark place as of late and this single message just saved me from that place.

Thank you Ian, really...thank you.

[tonatiuh8]

Bumping this up.

[Hector M.]

Just...beautiful.
Like a harmonius gathering of...harmony.