Existence of Balance

I was just thinking about it just now. There is, great sadness in this world. A great many sadness that words cannot simply express it.

Everyone has their own hardship. Everyone has their own story. Everyone has their own experience with life. So that's why everyone thinks differently of life.

Two people who come from different parts of the world would have totally different views and opinions about life.

But we know that, no matter where your from, everyone goes through hardship and sadness in their lives. A sad thought occured to me just now. Was that many years from now the day will come where I will have to stand in front of my mom's grave.

Thinking about it made me really sad. Does that day really have to come? I foresee many hardships ahead. I'll probably never be prepared for that day. But I know deep down that it probably will come. Life doesn't give you a choice in that matter.

It is also believed that life is of great balance. There are great downs, but there also great ups. Like the day we get married to our beloved. The times you travel around to see the world and become enlightened by it. The day when you have children of your own. Those are great ups.

I don't think life is about living the perfect life, or having the perfect partner, or perfectly planning out your future. What I really think life is about is, is living life honestly with yourself. Finding the one who will want to grow old with you. Not necessarily planning everything about the future, but you know where you want to be.

Due to the fact that life is of great balance, everything you do has a 'cause and effect'. No matter how insignificant it maybe. I believe it so. Doing 'this' provides you with 'that' result. Doing another way gives you another result.

That is why as Albert Einstein said, doing the 'same' thing expecting 'different' results is insanity. That's one of the reason I'm living my life slightly differently now. I would like to see the results it produces. It might be better, might be worse, but it fits the criteria of achieving something 'different' either way.

Something you do today might not have an effect now, but it may have an effect sometime in the future. You never know. Right now something might have happened to you because of something you did previously in the past.

Right now, the increase in the human population to 7Billion, effects the environment. Increase in our population means decrease in animal and plants population. As well as many other effects. We seem to bring a lot of trouble to the environment everywhere we go.

Everything hangs in the balance all the time. Imagine a box ---> |_|

So, you can say that the box is always full with water ---> █

Everytime, water is constantly being poured into the box

The box always remains full, but water is flowing in, and water is flowing out.

That's the cause and effect. Because you poured water into it, water comes out of it.

The same goes with life. When people die, someone is born elsewhere.

Whenever we do something, we are pouring water into the box. Somewhere else, water is being poured out.

That's the theory of the balance of life. I truly believe that everything we do has an effect on our surroundings, and most of the time we are oblivious to it.

What am I trying to get at?

I'm trying to say, when you think about something, hard enough, properly enough, it has an effect.

You might say no, it's not possible to get something simply by just your thoughts.

I believe otherwise. Everything we do has an effect no matter how insignificant it is. We hold more power to change the world than we think we do.

You need belief in your own strength before this is even possible. You need to understand what you are truly capable of as a human being. I'll give you an example

Let's say you have a GREAT talent for pottery making. BUT you were never exposed to pottery making. So throughout your ENTIRE life you never knew that you were good at pottery making, and never did it. That's because you did not KNOW that you were good at it, and also because you never happened to be exposed to it.

If you knew that you had GREAT talent in it, most likely you would have gave it ago, who knows what masterpieces you could have produced? But it never happened, simply because we did not explore our talents

THE SAME GOES WITH OUR MINDS! We do not explore the real capabilities of your minds. The problem with ourselves is that we often underestimate our own brains so much that we really become less talented and less smart. We do not explore and expose our minds to as much as we should.

BECAUSE WE BELIEVED NEGATIVELY!

Now you understand why I say believing is so important?

Believing is always the first step. Believing in the possibilities that we can achieve.

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My mind tells me now that things ahead are going to get a lot tougher. It never gets easier usually. Knowing this, I can only decide to go through and do what I can to make a change. With life. Everything has a cause and effect. The smallest things cause big differences and changes.

Simply because we are always hanging in the balance.

Understand your capabilities as a human being. You are greater than you think you are. But even so, always practice modesty. Being humble is really important otherwise we tend to get really full of ourselves and forget what's really important.

I don't think we should treat happiness and hardships differently

Whether or not a good or bad thing happens to us, we should learn from it, accept it, understand it, and move on to the next thing.

So whether or not it is good or bad, we can always learn to look at the brighter side of life and be happy.

You'll be surprised, there are people who, when something good happens to them, they become negative about it. Yeah! It's really funny how some people are.

In times to come, you will come to appreciate the bad experiences more. Because they are the ones that teach you the most about life.

Failure is the best teacher. Success is not.

So when something bad happens to you, learn to be grateful, stop complaining so much. Life is a balance. Understand that, and you will accept your life no matter how much bad things life throws at you. Because its a balance, good things do happen.

Just that because sometimes you get so negative about life that when the good things ACTUALLY come, your too negative to really celebrate about it.

So yeah! That's all for now. CNY coming soon, I'll probably be heading back to Johor a few days. Hmmmm, it's going to be a bit boring, but it's allright, I need the peaceful time away to reflect on life again.

Life fascinates me so much that I cannot understand why so many people throw away their lives. They must feel really terrible to be able to summon the courage to throw away something so important. I wonder how they really feel. If I could understand them more.....

Okay folks, have a great night =)

p.s. Dragon Age 2 coming out in march~! =) cant waitttttttt