At the risk of repeating what The lion King already told us : Life is a circle.
At first, I made this observation first when I realised that if I held an ice cube in my hand, at first it’d be cold but eventually it feels hot. It didn’t really make sense because why was I experiencing the exact opposite of what I should be experiencing? But it made me think about a lot of other things in life that are seemingly opposing but not really the opposite of each other. Obviously, I landed on love and hate because those are the two most common feelings and this can’t be the first time that anyone has ever told you that hate is not the opposite of love.
Love and hate are actually very similar with a fine line in between, not a spectrum like one would think. Instead, imagine someone took a rope whose ends were love and hate and connected them, it’s a circle. In fact, that’s why we find it so easy to slip from love to hate and then back to love. Hate isn’t really the absence of love if you think about it, it’s the same passion and care and if you try, you might find it really doesn’t hate at all. If you never loved somebody you could never hate them, and the chances are that if you love somebody you might just hate them a little bit (don’t quote me on this).
Everything about life is a circle — even life and death is one big circle that neither begins nor ends. And yes you probably watched The Lion King but let be just explain what that means. It means that everything we do doesn’t link only what comes before it or what comes after it but to everything else in the circle. There is fluidity and connectivity in the sense that everything you do in your life, all the choices and decisions you make flow into everything else. Hey, maybe you’re at the center of the circle that is life, but it’s okay if you feel like you’re just beside it too, I’m convinced I’ve been watching mine like a TV show instead of assuming my place.
Everything connects and flows. Think about it. Birth and death, light and dark, up and down, in and out, are they opposites, or is that just the way we’ve been taught to look at it?
