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harmony of opposites

Do you remember the time when your school teacher first introduced to you a magnet? You'd probably be wide eyed when your teacher shows you how it can stick to metal stuff and at the same time lift or pull lighter metal stuff. You must be lying if you said you were not amazed by the magnet's capabilities!

Besides the metal attractive capabilities, you'd probably remember how one side of the magnet will be grey and the other end will be red to annotate the north and south polarity of the magnet bar. Not to mention how the metal dust will move in the shape of the magnetic field of the bar when you place it in the metal dust.

When the metal dust move around the magnet to demonstrate the magnetic field, it can really be amazing watching the metal dust form itself around the magnet. What you probably would have since would likely be something like this:

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I am not trying to demonstrate or teach you about how a magnet works but I think I can somehow relate how we ourselves are similar to that of a magnet. Opposites may differ but there are things around the opposites that compliment the two opposites like how the magnetic field beautifully encapsulates the magnet.

If you may, you can even see it has how the surroundings bind the opposites to complete the circle of nature. Love holds a man and woman in a relationship, water keeps us hydrated whilst fire lets us cook our food, rain ensures enough water supply for the world whilst the sun allows for the greens to photosynthesize, black and white colours makes up for wonderful photos, oxygen for us to breathe and the carbon dioxide we breathe out is absorbed plants that make oxygen for us............

I guess there is a truth to the statement, 'opposites attract' and maybe its the hidden surroundings of the opposites that create the attraction - the harmony of opposites?

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