When I was young my father taught
me a valuable lesson. And that lesson is that “there is no good without bad.” What
he meant at the time is that without having a bad day, you can’t have a good one.
From all I can tell he was exactly right. But he was right in other tenses of
the phrase as well. You can look at everything, every situation, in two lights.
In most cases when something bad happens people only see the downside. Like one
time when I was a kid and I fell off my bike and scraped my knee. This is a
situation almost everyone has encountered during their childhood. When this
happens almost all people cry or go to mom for a band aid and a kiss to heal
their scrap. However this lesson is a blessing in disguise. If we don’t fall
off our bike as children we won’t learn that balance is necessary to ride a
bike. Shakespeare meant that all situations are neutral at the start. He means
that perception of situations is the only thing that matters.
When we fall off our bikes as
immature children we see it as a bad situation. We have physical pain, but when
we are older we see it as a blessing. It not only desensitized us to pain a
little bit more but we also see it as a metaphor. When your training wheels are
taken off your bike it is the same thing as going to college. Just as the two
training wheels stopped us from falling, our parents stopped us from failing. But
now it’s our turn to learn to balance. Not balance our weight on a bike but
balance our time in a day. We will get scraped and cut at first, but in the end
we will be smarter more independent people then we were before.
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