There’s an opinion that all processes in life happen in cycles. Here things are going badly for us. Then something gets a little better, then everything is absolutely wonderful. We’re at the top. At this point we realize that happiness can’t last forever, and the next downturn begins. And when we’re at the bottom, we can say: “It won’t get any worse.” And the climb begins. And so it goes, round and round. This cyclicality is illustrated below.
Let’s try looking at our life from another angle, about 33 degrees. Here we’re in a steep climb, then a plateau (we need to rest a bit and catch our breath), and then another steep climb. And so on.
In fact, the first and second charts are the same. But the value of the second perspective is that there’s no room in it for a bad mood. 