The good is good, and the bad is also good.
I. Contrast
If you had a white sheet of paper and wrote on it with white ink you would never see what was written. This could apply to the postive things in our life. If everything we experienced was great and beautiful we would eventually become desensitized to all the beautiful and wonderful things that happen to us. This is why we need negative or bad events in life, to give contrast so you can compare the two extremes and actually perceive them.
According to Dr. Thomas J Chalko "Perception is based on CONTRAST. You can read this text only because there is a sufficient contrast between the letters and the background." A super hero wouldn 't exist if there was no villians for the hero to counter.
In the Ejournal "Daoism" Lee explains that Yin and Yang are opposing forces that require each other to be present. It suggest that every quality and thing has its opposite. There can be no light without dark; there can be no male without female.
II. Bad things are precursors for good things
Nothing brings people together like tragedy, whenever a bad event happens in the world it ignites the fire for a solution to the misery and suffering. Many people see forest fires as a tragedy and they should be extinguished immediately, and even though they do pose a harm to human society, they are a requirement in nature.
BBC news states "Fires are a natural way of clearing old growth, causing organic matter to decompose rapidly into mineral components which fuel rapid plant growth, and recycling essential nutrients, especially nitrogen. Some trees cannot survive without periodic blazes. Lodgepole and jack pines are serotinous species - their cones open and their seeds germinate only after they have been exposed to fire."
III. Nature doesn 't see in terms of good or bad
Good and Bad are human concepts and words we use to describe things. The universe does not see death as the end to something or as an
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