The story goes like this.

One day a Persian king was reflecting on how to be a great king. He asked his scientifics to write a phrase that will always be true, in every case, forever, so that in dark time, he could follow this phrase as guidance. After many moons of thinking, the scientific came up with this phrase :

This Will Also Pass.

Everything passes, nothing is eternal, good times bad times, things we build will wither away as did the things our ancestor built. I will someday die, as you too. Our life will pass. As everything else in the world will. Entropy seeks equalization. Time won’t stop until the heatDeath of the Universe.

This Will Also Pass.

After a great battle, the king came back victorious, celebrating and all, a great party was comming, then his advisory came and told him again.

This Will Also Pass.

And so the king lowered down the intensity of the party, because even so they could be very happy at the moment, it won’t last forever and the bad will creep back one day.

This Will Also Pass.

And it did, but the king was wise, and since he didn’t get too high on the good, he didn’t get too low on the bad.

This Will Also Pass.

Don’t get too high, don’t go too low. As sad as is the fact that the good won’t be forever, we must relinquish that the contrary, that the bad won’t be for ever, is also true.

The king himself died one day. He was said to be a great king.

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