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Happiness is a sword with two edges. One that can cut away all of the darkness, to make room for the light. The other side slices your own fingers and splices open your skin. Which side do we hold onto? It’s not really a choice to make, it’s a matter of knowing their nature and managing your own expectations. It’s a matter of mastering your form and technique, it’s a mastery of balance.
At times Happiness can feel like a cotton tail, zipping from side to side. If you’ve ever tried to catch a rabbit, you’ll understand. It feels impossible. You have to be quick and slow down at the same time. You have to sacrifice your body at some point in the hopes of holding it close to your chest. I guess we’re all Alice in that regard, chasing an idea down a dark hole of the unknown. The journey itself will push you to grow and learn things you never thought possible, it will reveal things that will challenge your sanity.
Happiness is like the tide, it ebbs and it flows. It’s like a coin, two opposite sides of the same thing. You can’t have one without the other. There are moments where you feel like you’re in absolute heaven, floating on a cloud of bliss. In the blink of an eye, you can find yourself in the trenches, ready to gouge out your very eyes. For every incredible high, there is a equidistant low that will blow your mind in the exact opposite direction.
If you want to experience the bliss, if you want to taste it’s sweetness, then you must also be willing to swallow the bitter pills and weather the storms. You have to know that the dark days are worth the sunny ones, because they are. When you live the very best days on earth and experience unabashed mirth, the dark night don’t feel so bad. It just takes some faith and a lot of patience. Some days are harder than others. Some days I feel like laying down and giving up. But I never will, because I know it will always get better. It’s just a matter of waiting for the coin to flip.
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