The story goes, or the way that I was told, there was a king that always felt too high and then he felt too low. And so he called all his wise men to the hall, and he begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls. But here’s the thing—they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king, and engraved in black—well it had no front or back, but there were words around the band that said “just know this too shall pass.”
I mean the “this too shall pass” part. When people say the quote, usually it’s the kind of person who sees the negative treated differently than they treat the positive.
That works both ways though. Even the fable where the quote originated had that as a takeaway.
I’m paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of
‘Something that will make me sad when I am happy and happy when I am sad’
The story goes, or the way that I was told, there was a king that always felt too high and then he felt too low. And so he called all his wise men to the hall, and he begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls. But here’s the thing—they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king, and engraved in black—well it had no front or back, but there were words around the band that said “just know this too shall pass.”
This. Temporariness is temporary. Soon everything will be permanent.
I mean the “this too shall pass” part. When people say the quote, usually it’s the kind of person who sees the negative treated differently than they treat the positive.
It won’t be that way forever though