Entry 1: Contrast

Before I begin actually writing, I would like you to understand what this is. Basically, over the next few weeks I'm going to write ten entries, each one dealing with a certain moral or life lesson. And now I give you, entry 1.

CONTRAST

It seems as if everyone wants the money, but no one wants to do the work to get it. 

Because people say life is so hard and they never get anything out of all the good things we do.

They say everyone hates them, and that we all strive to make them miserable.

But I don't complain about the same things they do, and we both live and die the same. 

Every word underlined has an opposite meaning, an antonym if you will. Some are just relatively opposite, and some have more than one contradiction. Everyone want's the things that work out in their favor, no one wants the antonym. For example, everyone "wants" something, but no one will try to actually get it (in the example, the word "try" can be substituted for "work"). However, if we all just got what we wanted at our whim, then we wouldn't respect anything, and that is why we need to accept work, because things are much more valuable to us when you have to work for it (or if it's stolen, for those of you who catch my drift.) 

Basically, its the overstated but underrated idea that without A we don't have B. We need to learn that death is not just another part of life, but it's what makes life more desirable, because no one who is reasonable wants to die. However, there seems to be less of a problem of people complaining about death than the ones complaining about something else. Everyone wants to be loved, but we all have to face the fact that we all have haters. There is no love without hate, so why not accept what you can and ignore the rest? 

It's an all or nothing deal, if you want love you get hate, and if you just simply want something, you get work. We all need to come to a simple understanding that everything has an opposite reaction, and we need to learn to deal with that.