Balance in life?

it is called the law of relativity....it is like this...you do not know what happiness is till you experience sadness. you cannot appreciate success without failing. life is a perfect balance which means that if one thing is present, an exact opposite of it will always be there as well. otherwise, you wouldn't know or be aware of its existence.

Hello mate, I agree completely on what you said. Things are balanced yes, but when do we find it balanced is a question mark always because, it depends on us and it also vary from person to person! Well, a few people have all the happiness when they are young, but struggle a lot in the older phase of their life and there are the other few, for whom life works the other way round. But, there are even a few people, whose life is all balanced right from the beginning to the end. I must say, these people have the best lives and their living is always a peaceful one! Whatever happens, happens for a reason and we must remember one quote always in our mind and heart! When you have bad times, "Don't worry, this moment will pass on! " When you have the bad time, again, "Don't worry, this moment also will pass on! " Ultimately, it just says that, change is the only thing that doesn't change and we should not expect things to be the same and a one way traffic always. Its always two sided, just like the two phases of a coin. Both happiness and sadness comes along with each other. Happiness teaches us the value of life and sadness teaches us the value of happiness. Cheers! :)

Hello SomniatorIdealist! I believe that this alternation between good moments and bad moments in life happens because the mind can't stand just one state: of happiness or sadness. It needs the change, so, after being happy for a while, our thoughts drift to less happy thoughts, or less fortunate people, and than bad feelings become to emerge. What happens next, is us being in a not very good situation, to mirror our thoughts, that wakes up other unpleasant thoughts, and we stumble upon other bad situations. Things go this way, until we can't accept it anymore and we seek good things, happy people or memories, to make us feel better. With those good feelings, we start to see interesting things around us, nice situations and ideas, and we immerse ourselves in those...until...and then it happens all over again. At least this is my experience of life with it's good and bad times.