Highs and Lows ǀ The Cycle of Life

We can only truly experience something after coming across its opposite. Recently, that is what I have heard many people say. It is similar to the saying you can only experience the highs after experiencing the lows - a belief that I find to be true. As many people say happiness is not a permanent state, it is something that can be earned. 

Personally I relate this to the idea of karma, the idea that bad experiences lead to a good thing and that doing something negative, to someone else, leads to a negative experience for yourself. 

That idea is far more abstract than what I propose, although still something I half believe - even though it just probably happens that everyone's life contains ups and downs that some people  happen to attribute to events of the past.

My point is that we should remember that everyone's life contains highs and lows. This is a necessary evil introduced by the miracle of evolution. For if everyone was constantly happy then they would have no desire, no drive to achieve anything productive to further advance the species. Therefore, naturally, our life goes through highs and lows, that sometimes don't even relate to our physical experience of life.

What to we need to remember is this cycle goes in both directions. You might have been on the downturn for months, things not going well. Yet if you wait. If you give yourself the opportunity; you will come out the end and experience even bigger highs than you did before. Sometimes, to reach the good times in life, all we need is a little patience.