An ode to superficial differences

All colours, tints and hues are neighbourly friends complementing each other. Mingled darkness draws contrasts from drawn shades of grey, insights revealed where black and white clash. Inner luminosity becomes meaningful only in relation to lights and darks. The opposite of love is not hate; it’s apathy, indifference or loss. In the fantasy of being alone together, every sweet has its sour; every spicy has its bland. When young lovers are attracted by lustful passion, whoever cares and shares least will likely dominate and control the relationship. You can have anything you want if you give up the mistaken belief that you can’t have it. Perceived strength depends on overcoming weakness.

Our imperfect world features contradictory Sphinx-like paradoxes. Riddle junkies must discover quixotic truths, learn to make improbable choices and decipher mysteries without obvious solutions. Have the common sense to not compare and contrast seeming differences, but rather to balance and combine paradoxical likes and dislikes which appear to be identical in nature, differing only in degree, as in the following rhyming antonyms:

Brawny and scrawny

Chic and geek

Dimple and pimple

Grief & relief

Happy and crappy

Quiescent and effervescent

Sought and caught

Struggle and snuggle

Tired and wired

Work and shirk

Opposites can attract and repel as in polar magnetism or explode and implode as in matter and antimatter. Each pair ultimately becomes what the other is or isn’t, developing a common cause unity or disunity. 

If a compromised balance is reached featuring caring and sharing of each other’s soul, both parties will grow mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Peaceful co-existence requires two wings to fly.

No Holds Bard Dr Charles Frederickson