Saturday, July 6, 2013

Contradictions in life

The consolidation of our own contradictory desires is a challenge we face as thinking and feeling humans. If you are lucky and  just take life in your stride, without the fear of over analysis, life is indeed a breeze of  laughter and joy, maybe lacking depth, but joyous for sure. Yet some of us are born to think, a trait that makes grasping of tender moments of life a gesture of huge effort.

The more you look into yourself, the more you realize, that our needs and desires are always in conflict. Decisions would be so much easier if there was just one aspect to our personalities. It  does take courage to look within yourself and admit that what you really want in life is not only perplexing, but logically not possible. 

The struggle to find harmony,to satisfy the mutually exclusive desires is what causes call the tensions in our lives. Trying to find logic to your heart's desires, to just accept that all these contradictions are indeed part of you and to to make sense of the senseless  takes lots of courage. 

It would be so much easier to just experience life, to just feel it like you feel the cool evening breeze in the summer, just be able to laugh and enjoy, to act without  any thought involved, to just keep the mind empty and heart full of joy. Wouldn't it be wonderful to just live in the moment,  having no regrets, and no expectations, just enjoying the ride.

Yet maybe it is all these contradictions that add flavor to our lives, the mystery of not knowing what you might discover about yourself as you dig deep. Accepting our innate nature, loving our eccentricities, just being honest with ourselves irrespective of the image you portray to others, is what living all about.

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