A Fine Balance

by Rohinton Mistry

Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote:

‘All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay.’“

“You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.”

that the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair, to embrace change.

Why did humans do that to their

perfect balance between life and death.

Where humans were concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure; and sorrow, for the hopelessness of it

“There is always hope – hope enough to balance our despair. Or we would be lost.”

“After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents – a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.”