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 des...