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Can A Negative Experience Be Used for Positivity?
Life is a matter of balance and choices.
For every extreme, there’s an opposite extreme. Up and down. Small and large. Left and right. Black and white. Tall and short. Good and evil. Positive and negative.
Often, these extremes are personified as opposite sides of a coin. The problem with this is that coins are flat, and most things exist not at either extreme end, but somewhere between them.
Take black and white, for example. Between these extremes is every color you can imagine. Then, beyond that, there are many shades of grey. This is true whether viewing black and white as literal colors or figurative opposites.
For this reason, I equate these extremes not as opposite sides of a coin, but instead as opposite sides of a cylinder. Taking the coin analogy and necessarily stretching it.
But there’s one last twist to this. Extremes are not constants. Good today can turn to evil tomorrow. Thus, the cylinder between the extremes is flexible.
This also reflects on the reality that there is only one constant in the entire universe: Change.
The reason I’m laying out all of this for you is because it’s necessary for understanding how a negative experience can be used for positivity.
