Dichotomy

Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost
Anyone plain can be lovely, Anyone loved can be lost.

Falling for the First Time - Barenaked Ladies

Such is life, yes? Things that seem easy, have incredible cost. Things that cause the most pain can have the highest reward.

Yet we rarely stop to see these dichotomies in life. We see easy, and expect easy. We see beauty and expect beauty inside and out. We see plain, and don't expect the poetry within.

We are given pain, and don't expect pleasure. Yet, I've experienced pain that has become pleasure, and vice versa.

Shedding our preconceived notions is what allows us to find out these things. That shows us that the edge of a knife can be as pleasurable as the softest of kisses.

And for this lesson, I will be eternally grateful.