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What a distorted concept that one must first experience misfortune in order to understand what fortune is. As if there is not fluctuations of such around you. It has to be connected to you. How limiting. How limiting.
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There's an illustration of what looks to be the princess and the pea where she has to have so many mattresses between her and this the pea in her mattress. So the question is, can you know true happiness without sorrow? Of course.
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I think what Hans Christian Andersen is trying to say with this quote is that it's hard to appreciate true happiness if you haven't experienced sorrow. So you're going around hunky-dory, not a care in the world, but you lack appreciation for it until you lose it. So you don't you don't know what you had until you've lost it kind of logic. Maybe?
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So I'm trying to put together the princess and the pea and happiness and sorrow. The sorrow is the pea and the pea is just so small. It's like most of us would not register that kind of sorrow. And her level of happiness is so extreme. She's a princess. Princesses are archetypal characters that supposedly have never known love.
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So this princess who has never experienced a lack of sleep because she's always been comfortable and so much Has gone into making her comfortable For her not to experience this even the slightest bit of discomfort or sorrow She's being protected so So the opposite could be true. You may never know sorrow You
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so can the opposite be true if you've never how can you know sorrow true sorrow if you've never known happiness can the opposite be true is it possible you could go through your whole life never being truly happy because all you've known is one sorrow after the other or you don't know sorrow
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I think this is, this should be alive because trying to talk about this in 30 second increments is just crazy.
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