The Harmonious Balance of Opposites

Just one advantage to having a child is the realization that he is his mother and his father in the flesh, and that the mother and father can see their respective natures in him, and reflect on what they can improve on and what they can be proud in. Mary and I, being the prototypical 'opposites attract' couple, are balanced out by Dylan who in preschool always drew himself with red hair (like his father) yet always exhibited his mother's ability in perceiving trouble in others and offering to help. Somehow, Mary and I did not 'see' qualities of ourselves until they were made apparent in Dylan, and through him, we have become more appreciative of each other as a result of his being born. Mary and I both know, that we neither one truly completed each other in the highest sense, and that Dylan is that third cord in the rope, that now intertwined, now even opposing one another at some points, yet joining one another at other crucial points, form a new rope that when in tension is much stronger now than the three constituent elements were before and alone. Symbolically, our is the trefoil, the three cord rope, and the triangle, all traditionally used to signify the spiritual in ourselves. Thus a balance has been realized, a fullness made complete, in both Mary and I in our son Dylan.