Holding the Opposites

 What if life is both a sacred gift,

and an eternal case of "charlie brown and the football"?

That would mean that the meaning and importance of life is not in the achieving, not in the acquiring, but something else entirely.

What would it mean if the universe is plotting both for you, and against you, simultaneously?
What would the implications be?

Slow down and savor the scenes?
Knuckle up and push harder?

Nothing is what it seems.