This is a bitter principle of life. Life takes away more than it gives.

When we look at life, sometimes we see a strange truth. Very slowly, almost silently, it gives us a lot, and then takes away even more. Then it seems that this is the bitter principle of life—life takes away more than it gives. It is difficult to hear, but there is no way to deny it.

Life was much simpler when we were young. Laughter was unnecessary; joy was light. Back then, life gave us time, a free mind, and innocent dreams. But as we grew up, I realized that time was the first big takeaway in life. Gradually, time decreased, responsibilities increased, and I lost the child inside my heart somewhere. Life gave us reality, but in return, it took away simplicity.

Life gives us relationships—family, friends, love. But the strange thing is, it is through these relationships that life teaches us to hurt the most. The closest people one day go away, some change, some are lost forever. It seems that life taught us to love only to suffer. What was given was relationship, and what was taken away was peace.

It is also necessary to talk about dreams separately. Life taught us to dream, gave us the courage to become something big. But under the pressure of reality, those dreams gradually become small. Some dreams break, some dreams we give up on ourselves in the urge to live. Life gave us eyes to dream, but took away the opportunity to fulfill those dreams.

The most bitter thing is that life teaches us to be strong. Pain, failure, humiliation—it makes us strong through everything. But in the process of becoming strong, life takes away the tenderness of feelings. The things that once made us cry no longer bring tears to our eyes. We survive, but we cannot feel the same way as before.

Yet, to be honest, life is not completely cruel. Maybe what it takes away changes us. We are not as simple as before, but we become real. We are not as emotional as before, but we have become stable. Life gives us something—it just costs a lot.

That's why to understand life, you can't just count the gains. You have to look at the takeaways as well. Life teaches us how to survive even when we lose. How to live with less. How to find meaning even in emptiness.

Maybe this is the real lesson of lifestyles. Life isn't always always fair, however it's far actual. It takes away extra than it gives us—that is its bitter precept. And we ought to accept this bitterness and move forward, in our own manner, silently.