The norm of reciprocity...

Today i heard a song by jason mraz called life is wonderful. The lyrics really hit me. One thing leads to another and there are always the good and the bad. Like what is in the lyrics, these are some that i could list

it takes silence to appreciate the sounds,
it takes loneliness to appreciate a company,
it takes death to appreciate the living,
it takes sickness to appreciate health,
it takes being stupid to appreciate knowledge,
it takes hunger to appreciate the taste of food,
and it takes losing something to appreciate what we have

I could go on and on about this and I could still be leaving a few things out of the list. Even the Quran states some of these in its writings. For it to be forgotten is a shame since it is always in front of us. It is a norm in our society and it has even been said in some of the proverbs or sayings like "if you get sick it shows god loves you". See that there is a positive side to a negative one. Even the phrase used commonly by parents like "i am only mad at you because i love you" and so on and so forth shows how true this is.

I think we should all be grateful on all the things that happen to us be it the bad or the good since without it we wont know the other. Say alhamdullilah or just appreciate good things and say astaghfirullahalazim when it is otherwise. When the darkness falls know that light will come soon.