“Life is too ironic.
It takes sadness to know what happiness is,
noise to appreciate silence
and
absence to value presence.”
Life IS Balance!
Happy and sad.
Noise and silence.
Absence and presence.
A lot of the time
it depends on how we ‘look’ at life.
It is true that we often need
the negative to know the positive
so that we can balance out our lives.
Isn’t it always the way
that when a loved one is absent,
we miss them
and
wish he or she was still present in our lives.
Every tear we shed in sadness
is very often replaced
with a happy giggle and laugh.
We learn to treasure
these moments
of happiness and cheerfulness.
Even as we appreciate
a quiet sit down after a busy and noisy day.
LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!
About the Creator
Ruth Elizabeth Stiff
I love all things Earthy and Self-Help
History is one of my favourite subjects and I love to write short fiction
Research is so interesting for me too
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FPS: The Last Flame Challenge Winners
Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
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Comments (2)
Lovely contrasts… so true: the negatives are so necessary to appreciate the positives.
So much truth there! Thank you for the reminder.😊💖💕