BILLET DOUXPREFACE
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine;
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro’ the world we safely go.
Who or what causes for joy and woe? Are we, or our circumstances, or both? It’s easy for the philosophers to write or assert that one should be neutral to joy and woe. By dint of their megillah, one should be matured enough to apprehend the values of the aphorisms that have either been sermonised or read or outcome of their wisdom that have the power to realize the depth of these philosophies provided that he or she must be blessed by the Invisible. As the eminent William Shakespeare says that “The web of our life is of a mingle
