Love Your Bad Days Too

If it weren’t for bad days, I would hate my life. Or rather, I would hate the kind of life I live. I know I wrote a lengthy post that said we should strive to make every day a good day, but my point here is to say that bad days prepare us to appreciate the good days. We should strive to make every day a good day, but when a bad day comes along, we should embrace it.

My English teacher in high school used to say “there is no sunshine without shadow.” I thought the quote was flawed because sunlight, of course, can exist even without casting shadows. But it’s not about the logic of whether sunlight can exist, it’s about whether we can learn to acknowledge its presence.

I’m not saying we should try to turn every bad day into a good day. I’m not asking you to turn “lemons into lemonade.” Instead, I’m saying that only by tasting lemons will we know how sweet lemonade really is. Imagine a brokenhearted soul that finds true love, or a homeless man that wins the lottery. The stark contrasts between life’s experiences let us fully appreciate the moments that make it wonderful. Life is relative, and more than that, the experiences in our lives are relative. Without bad days, we would never even notice the good ones.