Most good things can be defined by what you do not see. If you are the type that must see something to comprehend what is happening, you will be too late, and it will almost not matter what you understand anyway.
The average person waits for presence to decode and define things; the better person knows to know things by their absence.
A healthy life is marked by the absence of illness; you can know the wise by the foolish things they don’t do; you can judge the quality of a relationship by the fights that aren’t there. In the affairs of nations, peace is largely the absence of war.
Some people like to tempt fate. Whether out of boredom or sheer stubbornness, they like to see all sorts of things and scenarios. They must be ill to appreciate the benefits of being healthy; their relationship must malfunction for them to appreciate the days it was fulfilling; they must live through a war to preach the benefits of peace.
Life is about the things you do and those you don’t do, but experience will teach you that it is mostly about what you don’t do. The things you don’t say when you are angry, the mistakes you don’t make at times of weakness.
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