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The Weight of Life

In order for me to find out the weight of my life I took all my clothes, shoes, accessories and even my pride off; and pain and grief are offset by the happiness and the joy, and stepped on the pan. The number delivered from simple math shows the negative portion of my life was way greater than the positive, I thought weight of the other side of the pan would not hold my weight. But it was my mistake, the beam tilted to the other side, though it seems lighter than a feather. No matter how closely examined, inconceivable is the weight of the weight. Is this the same reason though, an airplane seems heavier than the air but flies in the air; a battleship is heavier than the water it floats on the water. Although, life’s weight may be proportional to the number of wounds and scars like a rugged roadside stone, it is lighter than the weight on the other side of the scale.

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