Your life is served Sir!

Life is so ironic.  Alanis Morissette said it best with her song Ironic years ago with examples like "a black fly in your chardonnay", and "a death row pardon 2 minutes to late"and "Mr. Play it safe was afraid to fly, he packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye, he waited his whole damn life to take that flight and as the plane crashed down he thought well isn't this nice...".  Our life passes us by sometimes and we, as the participants, are sometimes totally oblivious to the fact that it is happening right before us.  Maybe people close to us can see what we don't and every now and they then they may be brave enough to tell us, but largely we fly through our days and weeks and months and years until a moment comes (or maybe a series of moments) that makes us gain perspective and wake up to the reality of what life is dishing up for us.  For example, it takes sadness to know happiness, because we can only truly feel the one, when we have learnt to deal with the other.  We make comparisons based on how we feel at the time and how we have felt in the past.  Maybe we can recall a time when we sensed joy and fun and good feelings, and this should and can really help us to deal with whatever our current feelings may be.  It also often takes noise, to appreciate silence, we rush around and have so many noisy interactions with people, that we struggle to remember the peace and quiet and yet when we do have an opportunity, to remain quiet and enjoy the silence, we ironically break it with a stupid comment, or a meaningless statement.  Furthermore, it takes an 'absence' to value 'presence'. How true it is that we get comfortable, with a set of circumstances in our lives and we daily execute those tasks and deal with those situations; our expectations are raised and we come to get used to the fact that the things we consider dear are just there, but only when they are no longer there, whether temporarily or on a more permanent basis, do we truly understand the value of them and what impact they have our life.  Irony is not merely cynicism, it is not being overly harsh about our frailties and having unfair expectations, it is merely a pointer from above that "life has a funny way of sneaking up on you, when you think everything's okay and everything's going right, and life has a funny way of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong.  So enjoy the Irony.