Paradoxical

Life is extremely paradoxical. It’s both cruel and kind, demanding and generous, chaotic yet strangely symmetrical. Many things follow an illogical and backwards pattern that makes life often frustrating for some people. What we call “backwards” might actually be the world’s most honest reflection of balance; the more we resist the contradictions, the more trapped we feel by them. Some spend years working harder and earning less, while others, who seem detached or leisurely, somehow attract wealth, attention, or opportunity with minimal outward effort. On the surface, it feels unfair. Yet beneath it, there’s a strange wisdom: GOD rewards not exhaustion, but alignment.

Strangely enough, you literally have to fail your way to success. Pain and suffering, if managed properly, can lead to peace and tranquility. The very things we work so hard to avoid: loss, heartbreak, discomfort, turn out to be the tools that refine us. Without falling apart first, we’d never realize the strength required to rebuild and that we all have, said strength within all of us. Everything we desire has an inherently positive and negative influence and can carry hidden opposites; freedom comes with solitude, love brings vulnerability, peace demands sacrifice. 

To look at things in a different way, this is incredibly beneficial for people who begin to notice the patterns–inter-personally and inwardly— and the chaos starts to make sense. Many people say things they don’t mean, take foolish and heinous actions fully believing they are wise, and claim morality while serving the ego. This is something we all do time after time, contradicting ourselves to soothe and feel better about ourselves. However, by recognizing these habits in ourselves and other people, we would be able to progress and conquer ourselves at a much greater rate. When you stop expecting logic from a world built on irony, you gain a competitive edge. You no longer react to the chaos, you begin navigating it.

The paradox isn’t meant to punish us; it’s meant to expose what we have already outgrown. This is the strange dynamic of life and people–they’re never truly linear, but always beautifully complex. It takes years, sometimes even decades for some, to build something significant, but it can come to a sudden and abrupt end in a second. All it would take is an action, a word—shoot, even a glance in the wrong direction or time, and it’s game over. This fragility is exactly what gives our efforts meaning. If greatness were permanent and easy, it would be worthless. The fact that an empire can crumble in a heartbeat is what makes the building of it so magnificent and alluring.

 Love leads to hatred and vice versa. War yearns for peace. We are walking contradictions, living in a world that rewards us when we stop asking and breaks us when we feel invincible. The more we embrace life’s paradoxical nature, the less we suffer from its unpredictability. Therefore, by leaning into and directing the chaos, rather than fighting it, we find the only true leverage we have: the ability to see the world as it is, rather than how we think it should be.