October 28, 2025
You can only appreciate the highest of highs if you experience the lowest of lows.
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Every time I think I’ve been through something hard, life reminds me, sometimes gently, usually forcefully: the bottom’s yet to arrive. The funny thing about reaching bottom is you only know you’re there once you’ve started to climb out. And you have some perspective, however faint or brief, that you are turning the corner.
That things are looking up.
Going through the troughs of life is never fun. There are tears of sadness, heartache and suffering, bouts of depression and misery. But I now know that there is always going to be a dawn, and that dawn will bring with it the possibility of optimism, strength, resilience, and joy that was likely never possible without first experiencing rock bottom. It was all part of the journey. So learning to see it all as a gift, however challenging, is the only way to see things.