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Back and forth

Back and forth. Black and white. Light and dark. Love and hate.

Everything has it own pair. Even The Quran stated that fact 1400 years ago. It's something I can't debate, and I won't waste my time either to do that.

But there's one thing that leaves me confused. Do we need to choose? And to make it more unfair, the options only consist two different thing. And somehow, the existence of one thing will force the other thing vanish.

Like if we turn on the light, the darkness will fade. It give us nothing to choose. We just accepted it.

But how about love and hate? If I can't love something, do I need to grow hate against it? And If I want to hate something, did it means that I must erase all traces of love I left before? Can't I love and hate something at the same time?

For all I know, I can't control my feelings. My emotions yes, but not things that live in my heart. It never work, to switch one feeling to other like blinking eyes.

Like Imam Syafii said, 'I never deal with something more difficult than my own heart.'

Now that I remember it, I start to wonder why I even bothered to write this note. I think I just need to make that thoughts leave my system. And what more easier way that throwing it out to the cloud?

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