All the worst experiences in my life, including a very terrible one just yesterday, I wouldn't trade for anything in the world. You know the old cliche "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger".... well that's a bit oversimplified IMO.

When it comes right down to it, what goes up (your mood, your mind, whatever) must come down. What goes down must come up. And if you learn a little something from the experience, you can learn to appreciate what you couldn't see before, and have a mind that is in balance. When you attain balance, you're contented somewhere in the middle, and the only antithesis of the middle can be the middle, hence halting the mental roller-coaster.

Intensely bad experiences can be incredibly valuable, because they give you perspective and can force you to acknowledge the stuff going on in your head that you wouldn't fully face before. And after my most recent hellish experience, I was forced to acknowledge some major changes in my life I had to make but couldn't face up to. And I realized what I'm really capable of accomplishing.

It's not so much what the experience does to you, as what you take from it. So keep that in mind.

- My stoned thought for the day:smokin::stoned:
Gandalf_The_Grey Reviewed by Gandalf_The_Grey on . You know what I realized.... All the worst experiences in my life, including a very terrible one just yesterday, I wouldn't trade for anything in the world. You know the old cliche "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger".... well that's a bit oversimplified IMO. When it comes right down to it, what goes up (your mood, your mind, whatever) must come down. What goes down must come up. And if you learn a little something from the experience, you can learn to appreciate what you couldn't see before, and have a mind Rating: 5