Life is about the EXPERIENCE OF CONTRAST. It’s not enough to simply hear of it or read about it in a book, though. The power of contrast comes from the way you feel when you actually LIVE it.
Think about it: you can’t fully appreciate a good love unless you’ve endured a bad one; you can’t know the magnitude of the blessing of an able body without also knowing injury, illness or chronic pain; you don’t understand the beauty of possibility and light unless you’ve known firsthand the darkness of despair; you don’t know the value of being truly seen and accepted by another unless you’ve also been dismissed, ignored, invisible.
So, as you experience the low of contrast, breathe through it. Give it your gratitude. Take it as an opportunity to discover something very important about yourself and your mission, and translate that suffering into something useful for someone else. You’ll find that CONTRAST HAS MEANING, so live and learn.
