“They say that bad things remain in your memory longer than good things, a thought originated by people who live monotonous, uniform lives. They do remember more of the bad because their ‘good’ is so uniform, so mundane, and so dull that they can’t remember it. Any unpleasantry, even the smallest, is a deviation from the flat, eventless line of their lives, and is therefore remembered.
But if the line is interrupted, if it oscillates in peaks and valleys, if happiness is difficult, obtained in battle and adversity, if a majority of valleys crowd at the base of a single, large peak, then the peak itself looks better and its memory is retained more firmly.”
— Vladimir Shatayev, Degrees of Difficulty
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