ying and yang

i heard a couple of kids sitting on some grass arguing about ying and yang, the prescence of evil vs. presence of good and it got me thinking. i wanted to write about it, but i really didn't know how to, so i decided to attack it in report form. it worked, i was able to categorize my ideas a lot better.
Ying and Yang is the presence of good and evil, and this concept is true in all aspects of life. Even in nature the presence of ying and yang is present. If you look into anything you can find something good or bad about it. The optimistic person can find good in any thing they focus on. Same is true for the pessimistic person, they can find something negative in anything. All around me in my life the presence of ying and yang is very apparent.
Ying and yang makes my life a lot easier to comprehend. When I understand that there is something good in everything, then it makes life a lot brighter and hopeful. Even in a bad situation there is something good that may come of it. All we have to do is look for the good in life. In school, there are some days when nothing is really going right, or there are a lot of tests that I don’t want to have to take. I could just look at that and think about how horrible a day it is or I can realize that what I am learning is preparing me for the future, and the tests will help my processing skills and test my ability to retain information.
There are days at work when my parents are completely ornery and I really just don’t want to be there to have to deal with all of the problems. When I think about how it is helping me have patience and that it is teaching me that no job is perfect, but that I just have to stick it out, that it will get better is really going to benefit me when I get a new job. We can always learn from every experience. It just depends on us if what we learn is good or bad. A bad day at work could teach me that it is justified to want to quit so I might as well, or it can teach me the pride in sticking it out and doing the best I can even though I’m not being appreciated.
Ying and yang is in us as well. I think that I am a good person who doesn’t do anything seriously bad. There is that evil presence in me called depression that makes it hard to always do the best I can. That evil part of me could easily take over if I let it, but the good part of me will never let that happen. There will always be a battle waging between good and evil, it is only when they work somewhat together that our lives move smoothly.
Cloudy and gray days are somewhat depressing, and most people would rather we didn’t have cold and windy days. With out those cold and windy days then we wouldn’t appreciate the bright and sunshiny days. Same goes for good and evil; we don’t fully appreciate the good with out knowing of evil. We are more grateful for what we have when we have had to do with out.
Being sick is terrible and no one ever likes being sick, but if we were never sick then how would we know what being healthy really feels like? I always appreciate being healthy more after I have just been sick. It is the same with everything else. The bad in the good makes us appreciate the good all the more. I am grateful for the presence of ying and yang in my life. With out ying and yang our lives would be very different from the lives that we know today.
How often do we stop to think about being grateful for something as simple as a bright, cloudless day; the simplicity of a childs' game, or the simple pleasure of a cold drink on a hot day? Ying and yang make life a lot more enjoyable. Understanding allows acceptance, the acceptance of the concept ying and yang goes a long ways to making a happy life.