Yes, dilute it until you can swallow it. When life hands us some very bitter pill to take and take we must. But you can’t take it whole, you can’t take it neat. Crush it, make it into powder, mix into the juice of life and take it. Mix it with laughter, joy, love, work, with every beautiful and sweet thing you know and can lay your hand on, then take it. Don’t take it whole as you might choke or spit it out. The bitter pills of life must be taken, it is for the healing of the soul. It is for the balancing of the man.
Water it down, weaken it if you must but you must finish the dosage. Take your time, but finish it. The bitter cup that is assigned to us must be consumed. But life gives us water and allows us to dilute it. There is no bravery in taking it neat if we have to spit it out again.
When the night has come and it is pitch dark, we must look for the moon to light our way as the journey has not stopped, and neither is it ended. We must open our eyes to find the only light we can see. Accentuating the darkness with our eyes close does us no favours.
We can’t run away from life, we can’t avoid the bitter pill, but we can spread it out, we can stretch it, we can break it up, we can mix it up, we can dress it up if we need to. But still, we have to take it.
There is no crown or merit in taking it the most difficult way, the aim is to take it, and the benefit is in imbibing the lessons. Take it in the easiest possible way. Dilute it!
Beautiful Ivory 