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A little badness could be pretty misleading in most fields, but I'm guessing in medicine... mainly oncology I'd wager that a little badness is going to go a hell of a long way. Even with there being goodness... actually I take that back. Even with what little goodness is out there for my patients I highly doubt that really the badness is something to overcome.
I get the notion though. The theory that the good things are worth the struggle, the ends are worth the means. Which in theory... well it makes a great theory. The truth though is that no one thinks about the badness they had to overcome. They push past it and never want to look back. That's probably why people end up doing the same dumb things to themselves. They forget all the pains they went to in order to get there.
It's all a sick process really. Push through to survive only to do it all over again, because despite all the badness you overcome once you get to the goodness? It's all going to be forgotten, or at the very least they'll think it was worth all that trauma to have that good moment.
I've watched it happen with patients when they get their first clear test results letting them know they went into remission. The moment they know they're okay for a while everything they went through seems worth it and if it comes back they'll be willing to go through it all over again just because they only remember that drop of good in the flood of bad.
I get the notion though. The theory that the good things are worth the struggle, the ends are worth the means. Which in theory... well it makes a great theory. The truth though is that no one thinks about the badness they had to overcome. They push past it and never want to look back. That's probably why people end up doing the same dumb things to themselves. They forget all the pains they went to in order to get there.
It's all a sick process really. Push through to survive only to do it all over again, because despite all the badness you overcome once you get to the goodness? It's all going to be forgotten, or at the very least they'll think it was worth all that trauma to have that good moment.
I've watched it happen with patients when they get their first clear test results letting them know they went into remission. The moment they know they're okay for a while everything they went through seems worth it and if it comes back they'll be willing to go through it all over again just because they only remember that drop of good in the flood of bad.
