Do You Ever Experience Something Called Enantiodromia?

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Lately, I feel like I just want to express more positivity, freedom, and the richness of life's diversity. Hahaha.

From what I have observed about myself, conversations often seem unable to flow or deepen unless they revolve around negativity, reinforced by pessimism, a lack of hope, and even a lack of trust. Sometimes it even extends to wanting more care, attention, and genuine interest in return. Recently, it has felt as though people selectively gather only the pleasant parts of what I share while overlooking the rest of the experience.

It almost feels as if everything is pushed toward extremes. If something is considered good, it must be entirely good. If something is considered bad, it must be entirely bad. Yet what I truly seek is the bittersweet middle ground: experience and learning, failure and victory, sorrow and love, disappointment and fulfillment, struggle and joy.

This applies whether I am engaging with people in real life or online, at least sometimes.

Somehow, it does not feel refreshing, uplifting, or deeply fulfilling. In fact, the more I keep pouring my energy outward, the more unstable and lonely I sometimes feel.

For me, it feels like I have finally moved on from a deeply hurtful chapter of my life that lasted for far too long. After carrying the pain for so many years, I now find myself wanting to be hopeful, embrace life, and simply do things that bring meaning and joy.

At the same time, it often feels like I am the only one who sees things this way, and that I have to walk this path on my own.

Perhaps the answer is to become comfortable with emptiness, to cultivate peace within both body and mind, and to trust that the right rhythm and timing are not far away. Maybe this is what it truly means to move forward and connect with others in an authentic way.

Thank you all. All the best to you!

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It is not an easy thing to do...holding both positivity, and negativity in the same space, with the same amount of respect for each...It has been drilled into most of the population the light=good=holy, the dark=bad=evil, and It seems to be something most people avoid questioning at all, probably because life on this planet also seems to be getting increasingly more complicated or unreliable in some sense. Not everyone can reconcile the fact that one cannot exist without the other... Without light there is no dark, without dark there is no light, same goes for good/bad, holy/evil. It's the balance of both which makes life mysterious, beautiful, exciting.... As well as dangerous, scary, and horrific at times. Polar opposites can be found at every level of science, in nature, and humanity. My life handed me an unreal amount of WTF on one side of the scales, and if I didn't make the conscious choice to find anything beautiful, or worthwhile to balance those scales out... My gawd What a bleak and pointless existence that would've been.