LIFE’S A PENDULUM
“Life is a pendulum which swings between joys and tears.”
-Zahoor Ahmad Dar Dar
Life is messy. You are going to have your highest highs and your lowest lows. This is a concept many people aren’t able to comprehend and causes problems. Life is always moving. Just stop and think for a second how crazy fast it is moving.
While you are reading this, we are flying around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. What’s even crazier than that is that our solar system is hurtling through space around the milky way at 140 miles a second! Whoever is driving this system has ridiculous hand-eye coordination.
I think of life as a pendulum; it constantly moves back and forth unless we force it to stop. If you put a pendulum in a vacuum-sealed environment, it will continue swinging back and forth forever.
Imagine on one side of the pendulum is a smiley face and on the other side is a sad face. These are the two major emotions we seem to create the most of in life. When the pendulum swings towards the happy face, you better be thrilled and enjoy the moment to the fullest because you know that the pendulum will be going back towards the sad face.
Don’t fret because even though the pendulum is on the sad face, you don’t need to stay unhappy forever because you know the pendulum is constantly moving. You will be gravitating towards the happy face before you know it. Some sad face episodes will be more brutal to get through than others, but having the thought of the pendulum swinging towards the happy face eases this phase.
The only time pendulums stop swinging in a vacuum-sealed environment is when you start extracting energy from the environment. I like to think of the extracted energy as positive energy. We sometimes force the pendulum to stop swinging with our negative energy, and most often, that pendulum stops on the sad face.
People who have positive energy and understand that life is messy and is out of their control still experience the sad face. Still, you will notice their pendulums swinging towards the happy face a lot quicker than someone with negative energy. The pendulum will also stay on the happy face for a more extended period with these individuals.
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