Who are you... who you are.

"Is and Isn't produce each other.

Hard depends on easy,
Long is tested by short,
High is determined by low,
Sound is harmonized by voice,
After is followed by before."

from Tao Te Ching

I recently read that stanza. It really hit home, especially "hard depends on easy," and "after is followed by before."

When I get into my existential moods, my mind tends to turn in circles. This weekend was very existential... with a little more prayer than I've been used to lately, some philosophical reading, and watching some good television that made me ask all the right, big, important questions. Of course, my parents grilled me a little about girlfriend issues, and I spent time with a married couple I am friends with, and heard another friend's "going out" stories. It is all relative, and is yet not.

I am who I am. I am. Simply. Inexplicably. Forever, and yet finite. I am the long and short. I live the hard and easy. I am the after and the before.

But, best of all... I am.