just some additional pondering...

Be at peace with the nature of reality and your place in it in time and space, for it is the way it must be, could not be any different than it is. Is perfect = per-effect, cause and effect.

If you survive "no matter how bad it gets it could be worse" then you may be part of the genesis of a new order. but no...that was not the point. the point is as follows:

Without opposites, or opposition in all things, the universe and man in it would not exist and life would not be, thus THE NATURE OF LIFE--NEGATIVE & POSITIVE--DARK & LIGHT (life as it is today and will be) IS A NATURAL ETERNAL ORDER THAT NEVER VARIES.

Opposites (negative & positive) exit in the micro world and the macro world, in the unseen world and the world we see, and no where is it not.

Opposites exit is each person. We are duality, both negative and positive. Energy from singularity to energy organized into form and back to singularity and non-form (birth and death) is inherent in the form. Thus death is an attribute of life. You cannot have one without the other.

When there is birth, there is death; when there is love, there is hate. All things have their opposites, which is why life CYCLES, from beginning to endings. Within a new beginning is the seed of its ending. Opposites make life possible. It is the very nature of creation. You cannot escape it no matter what plane you live on. The circles of life are circles because the BEGINNING always ends at a NEW BEGINNING, a seamless circle of life and death. THAT IS REALITY.

Understanding the very nature of reality is key to peace, is the key to enjoying reality. It works for me. nem