"Like a coin, everything has two sides to it."
I've survived the first week of actual lessons in my new life at Innova Junior College. Having to attend lectures all day, taking frequent breaks in between sometimes, munching the cookies I really love, cleverly cutting the super long queue outside the bookshop to get our lectures notes from time to time, and cursing why we have so much breaks when instead we can finish most if not all our lectures in one go so that we can be released earlier. I've unknowingly just summed up my entire week of education. If anything, I know I'm ready for JC life.
Well, it's been some time since I wrote about a certain topic, since I'm always updating about my life, due to all the major events that happened at around the same period of time. Well, now I finally found the time I'll need to elaborate on a certain topic that I've been pondering over the past few weeks. In fact, this has always been on my mind.
I'm sure we all have heard about how everything has two sides to it. Like everything is an double-edged sword. Sometimes we are advised to "look at the bright side", when we are facing a problem or are feeling down because of something. Needless to say, obviously it's true that everything as both sides to it. And it is balanced. A coin has two sides, heads and tails, and when you flip it and catch it, both stand an equal chance of being the side face up. I know I'm talking about Mathematics, but the concept is there.
There's indeed a balance between the two sides of everything. Let's say, if you are playing soccer and someone injures you, putting you out of action. The "Bad" side would be that it will hurt a lot, maybe even to the extent of breaking your leg(for example), that you might not be able to play soccer anytime soon, which might be a burden on your team since you are irreplaceable on your team. That's really a bad situation, isn't it? When you look into the "good" side, the injury experience will make you be more able to avoid similar incidents from happening, making you more agile. The fact that you're not able to play soccer anytime soon, let you be able to spend more quality time with your loved ones, and the people you care about, or do any other things worth doing. My point is, when you actually think about the "advantages" and "disadvantages" for a certain something, both actually is on equal terms.
However, we people tend to look into one side more than the other. Taking the same example: getting injured while playing soccer - We will generally categorise it as a "bad" situation, since the negative effects seem so much more "obvious" that we usually don't even look at the positive effects. In our life, we categorise most stuff as "good" or "bad". Sometimes, after experiencing a certain incident, we may even change our mind about something, like from "good", we will think of it as "bad" now, and will want to avoid it as far as possible.
I feel that we really need to change our mindset about this, especially if a certain choice or event might shape our future, as well as the future of the people around us. If we keep looking at things from one side, our misperceptions will cause us to make regrettable and silly decisions. There will not be "good" without "bad", no "light" if there's no "darkness", no "love" without "hate". Both sides co-exists in every single thing in this world. Just because you have gone through something really bad, and you wish to avoid doing something once more, you're simply throwing away the chance of getting the good side of it. Isn't that regrettable? Don't throw the "good" stuff away, don't shut yourself away, give yourself a chance to redeem what's lost. Embrace both sides, because the "good" things couldn't have existed if not for the "bad".
"Love and Pain are the two sides of the same coin."
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