Good Times and Bad Times

We’ve all had bad times as well as good times throughout our lives. Eras or a certain period of time which we wish never occurred. Moments of history that made us sad, depressed or miserable. But, if you think back at those happenings and actually reflect on the outcome I am certain that you’ll have learned something, gathered experience or knowledge. Which makes bad times incredibly important, believe it or not!

First of all, there would never be any good times without bad times. If you’re always happy, would you really recognize happiness and really appreciate happy times? I’d say no, you wouldn’t.  Therefore bad times are of the upmost importance to our happiness. And often bad times are consequences of mistakes, mistakes aren’t easy to avoid, but when they do accrue you learn something. So without bad times you’d never learn from mistakes, and perhaps just redo the same mistakes over and over. Never too proceed in life or develop a better personality.  Where would society be if we’d never felt guilt, shame or empathy that makes us sad. And would we ever solve any problems? Because problems accrue when something is bothering us, we don’t want to be bothered so we solve the problem. The conclusion is that if we were to be happy all the time, things wouldn’t bother us and therefore we wouldn’t notice any problems. And therefore I think that we wouldn’t advance into the future without bad times.

Bad times are needed. But on some occasions they happened in vein or unnecessarily. There have been lots of examples throughout our history. Terrorist attacks, they are pure sabotage and horrible acts that we can’t learn anything of. These kinds of hardships affect the whole world by sending fear to the public. And just destroys the peace and calm in societies around the world, because, death is a special hardship. Often you are able to prevent the mistakes and never have them reoccur. But when someone dies, you can’t learn anything. They are dead and will stay dead. These are the unnecessary mistakes. I can’t see any form of progression origin from attacks.

And sometimes when you are affected hardly by bad times you could potentially need assistance to get past it. Depression could be a real problem if you don’t take care of it according to http://www.ulifeline.org/articles/396-the-dangers-of-depression. And I’ve never been truly sad or depressed so I wouldn’t know but I think this article makes sense. And if you read the article, the consequences are horrifying. This is why bad times have a negative side. However if you get help and treatment this might not become an issue. But on the other hand this is life, it’s not always fare. That is why you should learn to deal with bad times, however if you can’t deal with them, get some help.

Enough about bad times, good times are what we live for. It’s what keeps us motivated, because if everything was bad, why would you even try at life? There would be no happiness to live for, no meaning to anything, there would be meaning, but? Would we be able to know it? Would we be able to feel a propelling meaning to any actions if we couldn’t feel it? I don’t think so. Example, I like school, therefore I try my best. If I couldn’t feel happiness I would not like school and therefore not try my best. Would anything mean something, maybe our logic tells us so, but in the end we’d all be sad. That’s why happy times are of equal importance as bad times. It’s also a motivation for countries around the world to keep peace. But on the other hand it’s a motivation fight, fight for happiness. The consequences of that could be war. But also human rights, minorities around the world struggle every day to be accepted and respected, because they want to be happy. Happiness forms healthy societies by allowing everyone their own rights.

And show respect to individuals, since bad times are often personal, hence you never know if someone’s going through a bad time. But bad times are often far more important as they might seem. But sometimes bad times are purely unnecessary. Good times create bad times, and the bad times are of equal importance as the good times. Good times keeps us motivated in life, we want to keep them coming back, and through being nice and helpful to one another they will come back. Actually many scientists claims that being generous and giving complements in the everyday life will make you happier, you can read about that here (https://www.heartmath.org/articles-of-the-heart/generous-others-youll-happy/).