Highs and lows are all part of life, just the same as good and bad times occur when we least expect it. This is one part of nature that we can not control. We can not plan to live a plato way of life and not experience any movement from this line, it just doesn’t work like that! I was once told by a really good friend of mine, who was also a Captain of a medical ship I worked on, that we live in a cycle of ups and downs and highs and lows. Some people have steep gradients while others seem to have a levelled out wobbly line. I asked him to explain to me how do we level out some of our highs and lows in our lives, as in bring the highs down and lows up? The best time to work on the times when we are low (down, sad and depressed) is not when we are low but when we are on a high. That way we are able to see a way out of it. It kind of makes some sense right? Say you are depressed, when you get into a deep well you can not see how you can manage to get out and back up again. It’s when you are on a high that you are able to look at how to bring yourself out of the low for if there is a next time. Me personally I wrote it down in my journal and re-read it when I needed to in the future. Good times keep us happy, bad times strengthen us as a person to grow up and take on what life has next to throw at us. So next time you find yourself in a bit of a downward spiral which you are unsure how to deal with, (if you can) wait till you are on your way back up and then take a big look at where you were and you’ll be surprised at how you can see the whole situation differently…