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Polarity

“Light has darkness. Joy has sorrow. Up has down. Left has right. You will get what you don’t want to appreciate what you already have.”-Anonymous 


    Polarity is probably my favorite law of thought. It gives me a greater perspective on my life. How I choose to focus on the good or bad, where I put my time and energy, and how I can use it to become more selfless. 

Polarity is the idea that you need to have good or bad, happy, sad, ugly, pretty, love, hate, to really understand each one. Polarity allows you to hold on to the good when you have your bad days. It helps you realize that not everything is negative.

Think about your best day, the emotions you felt, maybe it was when you ziplined through a jungle, when you held your first baby, or maybe it was when you got on a plane for the first time. Joy, excitement, and happiness are the best feelings in the world.

Now imagine your worst day, the pain, anger, sadness. How would you ever be able to experience joy if you never had your bad days?

Before learning this principle I regretted my bad days; they made me angry. I wanted to crawl back into my bed and sleep for another hour. Nothing ever worked. You know the drill, your hair is a mess, your makeup doesn’t spread right and no matter how many clothes you try on nothing seems to look good. Now I’m thankful for them. It’s still hard to get out of bed on those days. But, they have shown me that good days do come. To be grateful when my hair decides to work. I am more excited to have them, they are a chance to experience that happiness and have another shot. 

Our world is filled with opposites; have you ever heard the saying “opposites attract”? I sure have, and I’ve always wondered why. It is because of polarity. Because of the law that everything needs opposites. This idea of opposites goes along with physical objects; batteries and magnets. They have their two sides, positive and negative. When you put the two positive sides together no power will run through. The same thing happens with magnets, they push each other away. We all know what happens when you put magnets and batteries the right way, it's like magic, they work! The magnets snap together and the batteries turn on your tv, your lights, clocks, watches and thousands of other things. 

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I have seen this happen in my life as well. One of my friends is loud and outgoing while I am more reserved and quiet. We work, we have good conversations, we laugh a lot, and I know I can tell her any and everything. I love to learn about polarity and all of it does for the world. Understanding polarity can help you to not only accept the bad days but be happy when they come because you will know that not every day will be bad, but those bad days can help and will help you appreciate the good days.



Taylor


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