The Paradox of Pain

“You’re not a bad person.  You’re a very good person, who bad things have happened to.  Besides, the world isn’t split into good people and death eaters.  We’ve all got both light and dark inside us.  What matters is the part we choose to act on.  That’s who we really are.”  ~ Sirius Black to Harry Potter

The title for this could have also been The Pain of Paradox.  I teetered back and forth trying to decide which side to focus on, and, in typical paradoxical fashion, I realized…both.  I remember saying last year that I wanted to stand in the middle of a teeter totter and be perfectly balanced.  To which a wise man responded, “You’re going to have to have a strong core.”  Of course, I was speaking metaphorically.  It’s safe to say I’m extreme about being balanced.  I know that sounds rather oxymoronic.

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