From Jul 24, 2009

I’ve been saying this for about a year now: contrast makes the good things even more beautiful.
It was said again today by a man I have quickly grown to respect, whose words I cherish listening to on the long drives to and from work.  It was said that in order move to a higher spiritual level of energy, one must first fall.

On so many levels, I understand this as truth.  You cannot really appreciate the beauty and joy and awe in your life until you’ve witnessed pain and devastation.  I believe that without one, the other is indefinable.

Of course, that doesn’t mean you want to remain in a free-falling state forever.  That simply will not do… but you can absolutely take the difficult parts of life, transforming them into an invaluable lesson, and become the next best you that you can be.

I want to unwrap this concept a little futher.  I don’t know that I will have the time to do this at the moment.  But I will.  I will.