The other day I heard the song "What?" by A Tribe Called Quest, and even though it is a fairly short song, it really made me think. In the song they rap about things that go together and how nothing is anything without another thing. That is a confusing way of saying that nothing stands alone, and everything is a part of an interdependent relationship that is necessary for everything to function. In other words, everything has an opposite and the opposite is just as important.
"What is a Quest if the players ain't willing?
What is a pence if you don't have a shilling?
What's a con artist if he doesn't have brains?
What's America without greed and glamour?
What's an MC if he doesn't have stamina?"
This song is cool because it shows how two-sided everything really is, and how something can mean nothing when its alone, but paired with something else it means something. It is kind of like positive and negative space; one cannot be without the other.
Lately I've just been thinking a lot about balance and what it means to find a balance. There cannot be more positive space than negative space, there needs to be a balance. I'm coming to realize how difficult it is to find a balance in most aspects of my life. When we were discussing the Frank Gehry project as a group I found it almost impossible to write rules for our group. Whenever I would says something, I would look at it from another point of view and contradict everything I was saying because I really believe there should be a little of both sides when making decisions. It really is troubling for me because when I look at things from two different sides, it makes it very difficult to make final decisions. I guess I am still trying to learn what it means to find balance and not have too much negative or positive in my life. I think my ultimate goal is complete equilibrium.
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