I-see-I-saw

It's quite amazing to see a series of happy and sad events happening in less than 2 months.

It started with my father-in-law diagnozed for cancer. He passed away 4 weeks ago and exactly 7 days later, my colleague got married. Then for exactly 7 days again, my sister-in-law gave birth to a baby girl! All in all, I saw sickness, death, wedding and birth. (could this be the new version of the 4 sights that Buddha saw?)

Is this a cycle? Would sickness be the next thing to happen again? I'm not sure about that. But one thing I can be very sure of is that there will always be a mixture of happy and sad events. And above all else, what I'm even more sure of is that what we are happy about today can be the very reason why we are sad tomorrow.

Simply put, every event comes neutral. But with our own perspective, we generate an emotion out of it. This emotion can be so strong that we manage to keep the bad side of the event out of the picture for the time being.

When we celebrate a birth, there has to be death. And death is in itself a new beginning of another event. Hence, it's not really negative when we think of the bad side but it's more of thinking NEUTRAL.

By thinking neutral, we still can continue to be happy, not so much because we forget there is a sad part to it but more because we appreciate the event and capture the moment. Above that, we are happy because we are able to appreciate the beautiful nature of ups and downs.

So, when there's a down side in your life now, don't despair. It’s so happen you are on the down side of the see saw. Things will change soon as we ride this see saw.
So, have fun riding the see-saw in this playground called life!