Opposites

Opposites are part of our world. There isn’t something if there is no opposite of it. Although they may limit our minds, we trace lines, as laws in which we have to respect; so society may be able to live. But if describing a human being implies opposites (which limit us) we may loose our liberty, our uniqueness. The concept of liberty is an ideal but a reality, humans always depend on something. Or maybe the ideal of our liberty is not lost but the word itself is lost, but what difference does it make? If words are created by our uniqueness (a part, not a hole). By communicating (words) we express our thoughts, which distinguish us from animal, “man is a social animal” (Aristotle), but words are limited. Then maybe we are humans not by our ability to express, but rather for something else. Opposites are simple, not essential, but lines which we don’t need, which makes us loose a type of uniqueness, or maybe delimit something which is rather necessary for liberty, “Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good because there is evil. Therefore having or not having arises together.” (Tao Te Ching. Two)