Not a constant

The clock’s tick is a force unstoppable, always on the count; but it doesn’t always work against us. Though time is always spent and never really created, we have the opportunity to choose to work with it and not against it.

From the time of birth to that of death, your life’s condition changes in response to the innumerable factors that be. Circumstances come and go, and perhaps come back again. Fortunes favor and oppose, we gain and we lose, often with seesaw effects: when we gain, we lose something in return, and vice versa.

In the presence of all these laws of life, a way to benefit from their effects exists. Life is not a constant, things change, and by watching life sway and by studying the pendulum’s swings, we equip ourselves with the power to make the most of life’s vicissitudes.

When life changes for the worse and our fortunes are not in our immediate control, it is wise to utilize that which we can control: our minds and the attitudes we maintain. A trained mind will learn life lessons from misfortune and understand how things work in the world more and more as time passes. When basking in life’s successes and privileges, a trained mind will stay in touch with reality and still learn from life. Consider a person truly fortunate when he can ride the highs and lows of life, good times and bad times, and still maintain love for life.