Accepting Life V

I turned, towards my friend, who always was complaining about the injustices and hardships of life and in a calm voice I asked him: " Tell me, was there a moment in your life that you, smiled? Laughed? Jumped for joy? Celebrated a success? Kissed your sweetheart and told her how much you loved her? That you embraced your firstborn and exclaimed- how beautiful life is?" My surprised friend looked at me, took a deep breath, and then, hesitantly, whispered: " Yes, I have to admit that there were moments like that in my life." " If there were moments like that, as you have just admitted," I continued "You, certainly, justify, each and all of the things you so vehemently condemn all life long!" My friend looked at me rather confused, saying nothing. Realizing that there was not to be any reply, I went on: " You see, my good friend, we humans understand something only if its opposite exists. For instance, we understand cold for there is warm, soft, because we have experienced hard, heavy, because there is light and so on. In the same way, we feel pleasure because we have felt pain, Joy because we felt sadness, Happiness because we felt unhappiness. As you see, the question is not, how just or unjust life is but how much we accept life or not accept it. If we do accept it- we have a chance to be happy If we do not, then happiness will elude us. Therefore, all depends on the degree we accept life or not, and To that degree, we can be either happy or unhappy, which means, either we would be able to enjoy life or we would keep lamenting and complaining about it! " © Demetrios Trifiatis 30 December 2019 * I would like to thank all my friends who visited and supported me throughout the years. I also thank the officials of PS for the honor of the POTD. I wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR, and may all your dreams come true, but first and foremost, I wish you health! Love. Demetrios