Opposites

It is said that it is difficult for two opposite things to co-exist in nature. However this is happening in our world today. We see that good and bad, virtue and vice, love and hatred and so many other opposites exist together in this world of ours. We may attest that both good and bad, virtue and vice and many more exist in us too.

                St. Paul speaks of this, in one of his letters saying that he knows what the right thing is, but ends up doing the wrong or the evil deed. We too feel one with St. Paul, because on the theory level we know what is right and what is wrong but finally end up doing the wrong thing. Fr. Glenford Lowe says,” In your daily life don’t ask what the right thing to do is but ask what the loving thing to do is.”

                The best example of this is Mother Teresa who lived a life of extraordinary service. If she were to ask the first part of the question and live her life doing the right thing, thousands and lakhs of children and old people would have still been on the streets. However, she asked herself as to what was the most loving to do and hence there came the congregation of the Mother Teresa’s sisters who even today, selflessly reach out to the poor and the needy.

                When marriages take place, people say that the bride and the bridegroom are opposite to each other…….. According to me opposites attract. This is similar to the science formulas where opposites attract and similar ones repel. If all people were to be the same, then all would be robots who would have the same qualities and the same functions. Life would be the same yesterday, today and forever. However it is not so and hence we have so much variety in life. Variety is the spice of life.