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Life, everything inside it, all of it seems to be balanced out in a strange fashion. I might repeat myself, but to pain there is pleasure and to pleasure there is pain.

Darkness and light, they co-exist even though they are constantly in a raging war. It's quite strange I'd say personally. But it's quite true as well, they are the ultimate contrast in a manner. Complete opposites in quite so many ways, even though they hold some similarities...

To that, it makes me wonder about something that I've read. And for once, I talk about something related to my own religion, Buddhism. Apparently in some texts, it is said that fate is predetermined, and apparently some sages, through mathematical calculations, could predict when such and such events would happen. And often enough it seems, they were quite correct. This was caused by the rule of Karma, you know, do good stuff and good stuff'll happen to you on the next life, do bad stuff and you get the idea.

Yet this book was also a book filled with suggestions to better one's life and not to follow a path of serenity, to take peace in fate as to know that everything is predetermined, your every failures and successes so that it would be useless to worry and scamper over it since it would happen anyways one way or another. This book was about changing one's destiny. As it was possible to still alter one's current life by simply changing one's attitude, by doing good things and being more positive and all.

Quite true in a manner, as for in the end, what's good and what's bad is all depending on how we perceive it. Hmm... I wonder if I'm straying off course right now... Bah, doesn't matter, I don't think a lot of people read what I've got to say, bit too long for most.

But there's something I'd wish to say as well, another's pain is another's pleasure, that is true as well when one looks upon society and regular lives. Small pleasures to people can cause small pains to others, such as a lazy friend asking another to work extra. The one lazying up can relax whilst the one working can't, it balances out. As for internal balancing, these can happen as well, the lazy one will build up negative emotions towards himself whilst the less lazy one will build up better capacities at the task or simply feel more refreshed at completing a good job.

Makes me think of a lot of things, such as our fate, how we control it, how the world controls it, whom is the true master of it. Our society, how it works, how it balances itself out, how it is so unbalanced nonetheless yet still balanced in a manner. Our own selves, how our actions, emotions and our body reacts to everythihng, how everything eventually piles up, positive or negative, if all this is not simply natural bodily reaction all of it in the end, somewhat of a pre-programmed reaction within our body and our DNA. Some reactions are explained through our hormones and whatnot, many others as well, it's quite worrysome...

I'm straying far from the theme of balance aren't I? Well, I guess I lack some balance... But hey, at least I'm still going on forward in this little text of mine, even though it's not very balanced anymore... Then let's just cut it at that. And like Albert Einstein said, life is like a bicycle, one needs to keep moving forward or else one will end up losing one's balance.