Can we recognize beauty if we have not seen ugly? Will we know the high of winning if we’ve never lost? Can we appreciate our wealths without previously experiencing scarcity? I’m not sure. Personally, I don’t think I’d be as grateful without the striking differences. I think there is so much beauty in that.
On another note, not sure why I wasn’t getting notifications of your deeply introspective writing! So glad I went hunting!
Awww thanks for finding me!! I’m not sharing too actively. Just reflecting and writing, which has been so nice!
And you’re right. Can’t know winning truly without failure. It makes it more sweet. Otherwise you always assume it’s just not that hard, so you undermine your win too. Painful.
And sometimes the defined win can be "enjoy it". A few years ago I was traveling in Spain with my little sister and our husbands and the catch phrase we kept hearing the waiters say is "enjoy it" (beautifully accented too:)). I think of that "goal" quite often. I have friends who will not stop reading a book, no matter how much they dislike it. I think because for them, finishing something is the reason for starting it in the first place. For me, enjoying reading is the reason I pick up the book in the first place.
10000% what’s the point of any of this is you don’t enjoy it?!!! Literally no one else cares so if not for yourself and your own pleasure and progress then what’s the point???
Can we recognize beauty if we have not seen ugly? Will we know the high of winning if we’ve never lost? Can we appreciate our wealths without previously experiencing scarcity? I’m not sure. Personally, I don’t think I’d be as grateful without the striking differences. I think there is so much beauty in that.
On another note, not sure why I wasn’t getting notifications of your deeply introspective writing! So glad I went hunting!
Awww thanks for finding me!! I’m not sharing too actively. Just reflecting and writing, which has been so nice!
And you’re right. Can’t know winning truly without failure. It makes it more sweet. Otherwise you always assume it’s just not that hard, so you undermine your win too. Painful.
And sometimes the defined win can be "enjoy it". A few years ago I was traveling in Spain with my little sister and our husbands and the catch phrase we kept hearing the waiters say is "enjoy it" (beautifully accented too:)). I think of that "goal" quite often. I have friends who will not stop reading a book, no matter how much they dislike it. I think because for them, finishing something is the reason for starting it in the first place. For me, enjoying reading is the reason I pick up the book in the first place.
10000% what’s the point of any of this is you don’t enjoy it?!!! Literally no one else cares so if not for yourself and your own pleasure and progress then what’s the point???