Why You Should Stop Avoiding Life's Lows Most people chase a 'smooth" life.. no hardship no discomfort. But true joy doesn't come from flatlining your experience. Alan Watts taught us that life is like a wave: it needs both the peaks and the troughs to exist. If you eliminate the lows, you eliminate the highs. So the next time you're facing resistance, don't numb it. lean in. That tension is sculpting you into something stronger, deeper, and more alive. Life isn't meant to be easy. It's meant to