A post my girlfriend Gwen wrote on her blog, made me think of life and its fragility:

"I thought about Oren, and that part of his life, the magnitude of his grief that he can never share with me, does he think about his brother's last thoughts? I imagined it was me..and so I didn't ask him cos it would too hard too answer. And I don't expect him to do that, to have to dig into those feelings now, not even for me."

She mentioned it in relation to a suicide case which aftermath she witnessed.

Life is like a flake of snow. It shines in beauty for a brief spell, and than dissolves. To us it seems much longer, but in the great scheme of things, It's but a flake of snow.

But Life is built on duality. Where there's sorrow there's joy. where there is anger, there is tranquility to oppose it. (or emphasize it, depending on the context)

I like to think of it as a game of balance. You receive a blow, and after a while (maybe) you'll find that life compensates you for it, in one way or another. A set of weights, and balances.

Sometimes, the blows and compensations are not as apparent as you may expect. Did you really expect things to be that simple when life is in concern?

Without evil, there is no good. Is that sentence true? if it is, than the same can be said on the reverse of it: Without good, there is no evil..

It's like you need a contrast. A backdrop of a certain color, or trait, so you can see the other side of it, the negative of it. It's true to a degree. but why? Because life is all about shades. Not about black and white, but about all the rainbow of colors in between them. And so, extemes stick out. Black stands out between the pastel colors, and White stands out between the darker shades.

Than what makes "white" better than "black"? Is it human conventions? A lasting fashion of sorts? Or is there something more?

Mostly, in my eyes, its the concept of God that makes "white" better than "black". God represents "white", while Satan (his fallen angel) represents "black". And so, all who wants to be on the good side of god, better go with "white" rather than "black".