Riding The Pendulum Swings Through Both Joy & Sorrow

Progress is not a straight line going up, up, up. If we look carefully, we will see that life goes between joy and sorrow and back again, over and over.

For example, there is the great joy of falling in love and the excitement of the wedding and honeymoon. Then immediately after comes the perhaps sobering challenge of actually having to learn to live together and compromise.

If we learn to accept the pendulum aspect of life, it might be easier to feel more peaceful and more accepting of our challenging times.