We’ve all heard that there is a need for balance in the world, a need for dichotomy. A need to oppose things that we see as contradictory to achieve the perfect equilibrium. Seeing the world as balanced by opposites makes it seem so vulnerable.
There is sun and there is rain
There is day and there is night
There is future and there is past
There is beauty and there is ugliness
There is right and there is wrong
There is summer and there is winter
There is black and there is white
There is woman and there is man
There are sunsets and sunrises
But there are cloudy days, mist, rainbows, fog
There is the present
There are things that are mediocre, things that don’t stand out but that we’d miss if they disappeared
There are reasons for every action
There are autumns and springs
There are so many shades of grey (not to say 50) and so many other colours
And there are intersex and nonbinary people
The world is not balanced by opposites. It is balanced by everything in between that makes those opposites appreciable. Maybe it is time to stop seeing the world as binary and start acknowledging the in-betweens, the beautiful things that we don’t look at, because they are always here, always stable. Maybe if we did so, we would be more accepting. Maybe if we did so, we would feel more stable too.