Basically you can sum all these up into one large category: Loss.
Loss of health, losing a fight, a loved one, a large sum of money, loss of freedom, loss of sanity (drugs), etc.
It's good to experience loss, but I think there's such thing as too much. You don't want to become embittered toward the world. I've never been knocked unconscious thank god, but I've lost a loved one, large sums of money, health, sanity, my first love, quite a bit actually. I've had about 2 occasions in life where I hit my emotional rock bottom, where I knew things couldn't possibly get any worse.
Ayn Rand talks about this in The Fountainhead. There's a certain place, sort of an emotional crawl space, where no matter how bad things get, no-one can touch you there and that things really only do get so bad. It's important to know this and keep it in mind.
Loss of health, losing a fight, a loved one, a large sum of money, loss of freedom, loss of sanity (drugs), etc.
It's good to experience loss, but I think there's such thing as too much. You don't want to become embittered toward the world. I've never been knocked unconscious thank god, but I've lost a loved one, large sums of money, health, sanity, my first love, quite a bit actually. I've had about 2 occasions in life where I hit my emotional rock bottom, where I knew things couldn't possibly get any worse.
Ayn Rand talks about this in The Fountainhead. There's a certain place, sort of an emotional crawl space, where no matter how bad things get, no-one can touch you there and that things really only do get so bad. It's important to know this and keep it in mind.