Topic: hadleyj09 's blog Being Black in China...yup

This post is very telling in terms of what it takes to be successful in any environment (or life in general.) Before, there were only highs in this poster's blogs. Now, remarkably, there are lows! (e.g., acknowledgements of racism, having to brush things off and keep your cool.) However, with these lows there is rationalization being paid to dealing with them! Recognizing issues and dealing with them is the greatest survival tip for all of us here - perfection is in balancing of our positivism and negativity, not in experiencing elongated high's or elongated low's. I think that when a lot of people hit highs, they try to convince themself life is perfect. And when they hit lows, they unreasonably do the opposite - focusing on the negative too much. The way out of this ditch is balance - an idea interestingly recognized by Eastern and Western philosophers alike. The same idea of the golden mean of Aristotle was expressed in the Zhong Yong (a doctrine which described a lot, including fluctuation of Yin (negative, feminine) and Yang (positive/ masculine) energies.) The key to happiness and healthiness is likely in the balance between the two, meaning we need to keep an average base line between our ups and downs. If I'm not mistaken, in prior blogs of this poster, all I saw was merely an opposite of those negative doomsday types. However now I see an acknowledgement of certain negativeness, yet a very good way of dealing with it. This will go to do much for him (and others who can manage the same) in the future.