Yin and yang; push and pull

“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy to the shadows.”- Brené Brown

In the yin and yang there is good and bad. In good you find the bad and in the bad you find the good. In every human there is the push and pull between the good and the bad, everyone has their own personal yin and yang.  With this yin and yang they must find a way to create a balance. This balance can be anything from the storm raging inside and the happiness a person yearns for.
Finding peace inside your soul is not something which can be forced, this peace can only be achieved by acceptance. The acceptance of the demons and monsters lurking in the shadows of your life. Also the angels and the happiness which shines bright in the light, we so dearly cling to.

What happens if we don’t find this balance in our life? There is no simple answer for this question. What will happen is the part (the good or the bad) which has the most control will take over your body and will cause suffering and pain. If the balance is not reinforced the system might collapse and cause the destruction of the mind, the body and the soul. This is why there is good in the bad and bad in the good.

When the mind, body and soul have reached total destruction the human will become empty and that’s when the dangers become a problem. In all of the bad there is this little problem of mental illnesses, which can result in death.
For a simple example there is addiction and this addiction had to start somewhere. It has started as a way to escape the world and your problems. This have made a false believe in your mind that it make the sadness go away just for a while and restoring the lost balance. Then there was that little lie in the back of your mind “I can stop whenever I want, before it goes too far”.
In extreme cases people will start to experiment with death, to see till what extent they can push themselves. Seeing how deep the cut can go, how tight the rope can go or how many pills does it take to get a “good night’s rest”. This is what will happen when the balance in a person’s life is lost beyond the control of getting it back. This also happens when no one can see that someone has lost their way and needs help to get it back.
I for one have fallen for the blade and the powder of the pill. Every day is a struggle to keep my balance and to not let the push be stronger than the pull in my life and vice versa.

Everyone needs to find their balance in their life, to find the perfect balance between the push and pulls of life. Because in the yin and yang there is both bad and good. In good there is bad and in bad there is good. BUT in all of this there is life.