The Practice of Life

This is something I really have known to be true.





There are great highs
There are troubled lows
Moments of bliss and happiness
Moments of grief and despair

What is to be said
in the practice of lie
There are peaks and valleys
They are dark and light

But whose life is perfect
so completely mapped out
That there are no traumas
No tears and no grief

Everything is just peachy
No problems at all
The great american dreamer
But what a total bore

We experience pain
to learn lessons in life
If we're not doing this
We're not growing and evolving

There has to be hard times
Where we're the downtrodden
Or else we're not present
in the experience of living

So let be said
The mystery of life
is to live it deeply and fully
and learn all that we can

And when it's over
Then we can say
we've lived it totally
Both the suffering and the joy