I started this blog as a simple anonymous avenue to explore and share my life experiences, thoughts, philosophies and fantasies. Which are which shall be left to you to decide. But this post is specifically about tension and release.
From conception, to childbirth, schooling, love, marriage, and death tension and release is a primary factor involved in creating these experiences.
Pretty much everything in life can be brought back to tension and release in some way or another. Stress. Love. Sports. Sex. Drugs. Happiness. Sadness. Love. Flirting. Anger. Hope. Love. Music. Theatre. Art. Love.
It is the dichotomy of human existence. Release is pointless unless there is a build up to it.
Just the same as happiness being useless unless you actually understand the opposite. And this is the tension. The understanding that follows the experience itself.
I learned this recently whist discussing with a friend the virtues of every kind of experience. I have attempted to live my life this way, intentionally so. Often stupidly so. Experience for the sake of it. It took time to accept that this experience itself was useless without any reflection that followed. But now I can look back at both all the good, bad and ugly things I have done with a satisfaction that none of them went to waste, and that each and every one of those experiences and the people involved helped create the person that I now am.
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