Do You See What I See?

I often wonder if the color blue that you see through your eyes is the same as the color blue that I see through my eyes.  I often ponder which version of a situation is accurate, mine or yours.  I often seek the beauty in what others see as tragic.  

It is a matter of perspective.  And this I know, it is the substance of what you see which determines how you move through life, in love or hate, joy or fear, happiness or despair. 

Although we fear, attempt to avoid and ultimately fail at removing all life struggles it is this truth that brings a new perspective. We cannot see and understand good without bad, light without dark, hope without despair, life without death, love without hate.  

Life is a paradox, yet we continually fight against the paradox out of fear in hopes of attaining a solely one-sided life experience called happiness, joy or peace. The reality, the truth is that we cannot attain this coveted yet elusive state by ridding the world of the opposite side of the paradox.  When we finally find happiness, joy or peace, it comes from the realization that life is all of these things and more with the more being the flipside of the coin.  It is the love of the opportunities for understanding, for allowing us to see the good because of the bad, the light because of the dark, life because of death, that illuminates harmony.  

Happiness is to know the perfection of life within the paradox, not to attain a perfect life.  That is the happiness, peace, and joy you seek.  It is in the gift of life struggles, small and large, personal and universal, that allow us to flex our muscles of humanity of compassion, love, empathy, understanding, acceptance, unity, connection, strength, trust, self-reliance, interdependence, and calm within the storm.   

Do you see what I SEE?