We live in a world of negatives which only takes.

We cry from the moment we’re born and endure the never ending march of time which demands everything from us. We must eat and sleep because the world starves and exhausts us. We must bleed and ache because the world injures and sickens us. Sometimes our tears are afflictions of our very soul. There’s no end to the amount of maladies we all face in our lifetimes. We do this until we grow old and our body stops working entirely. The end seeming to be our only mercy. My grandmother, a bitter old woman who grew up in the depression, has a piece of wisdom she would often repeat to me as a child. Her quote that she spat at me one last time on her deathbed, “You suffer, and then you die!” …It is undeniable that existence is suffering.

Still, I believe this is for a reason. It is what we’re meant to do. This is because it’s only through pain that we can find meaning. Good and bad. Bad meaning is found in exactly the way things are. In that world of negatives I just described. That world my grandmother, may god rest her soul, knew all too well. Bad meaning is found in reality. So then, what is good meaning? You might be guessing fiction, and… you’re right, but it doesn’t have to be seen as false. More like your personal truth that stands against reality.

Life is cruel, but the meaning we take from that doesn’t have to be. Everything is temporary, but our commitment can be everlasting. What I’m trying to say is that good meaning is found when you become the positive to an otherwise negative world. Every single negative thing that you know can only become a positive if you are. So the next time you want to talk about why something is a problem, understand that it is only so because you are. Nothing is a problem unless you think it is.

The world is wrong to us which is why we can be the only right, however, this is only possible for those who make the world happen instead of having it happen to them. If you live under the world’s terms, you will share its negativity, but if you live under your own terms, the world will share your positivity. So you should never attach your self worth to external factors. One who doesn’t know their own value will always fail. It takes suffering to learn this lesson which is why life will give you nothing but that until you do.

For all his bluster, for all his influence in a world that belongs to him, it was much to Satans anguish in vehement denial that all his evil would only serve good in the end. For it was God who made him, not he who made God. Just as it must be you to make the world, not the world to make you.