What is the difference between
The Tree of Life
And the Tree of Death?
Certainly, the color,
And the structure.
The artist’s renderings
Differ in the projected sense
Of mood.
Just the names
Seem to push the idea
Of happiness and positivity
Versus decay, endings and gloom.
Yet, they are the Yin and the Yang.
One completes the other.
The white, the black,
With a small smudge of each
Within the other.
Yet,
And yet,
We desire Life!
Happiness! Love!
Abundance!
Every minute of every day!
Yet, having nothing but life, love, happiness and abundance
Would be a life of drabness.
Of no anticipation
Or gratitude
Or striving for something better.
Life would become a kind of death.
Death completes life
By giving the Yang to the Yin.
We know happiness
Only because of sadness.
We know love
Only because of hate or fear.
We appreciate abundance
Only when we have known lack.
So right now,
As you sit here reading this,
Give gratitude
For each and every aspect of your life
As it exists right now.
There is so much to be grateful for,
Including,
And especially,
That which you used to call bad
Before you read this.
Death is something to be grateful for.
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