Paradoxes

For whatever reason, I woke up thinking exclusively in paradoxes today. Here are a few of them. I hope they inspire some interesting creative writing and or living today, for you and me both.

You only know what it means to live once you consider death.

You only know what you will write once you start writing it.

You will only understand real love once you understand real loss, real hate, or real ambivalence.

It’s easier to appreciate rainstorms when you’ve been experiencing a drought, just as it’s easier to appreciate the blaze of the sun when …