There are moments in life where one will go thru the phase to ups and downs. Be it in love, career and even character development. By far, the latter is the most challenging of all, because character is the basis of who we are.
Challenging is when we recognise CHANGE in life. What you do as a teen is different from what you do as an adult. So what do u bring over from teenhood to adulthood?
Change is a tool in life where you have to use to adapt and to prosper. The open-mindedness in one's perspective of life where the horizon is infinite, can only be limited by one's own perspective. What everybody have come to accept can only be to an extent, except for yourself to know the depth of who you are.
Recognising this (eventually) will progress one to the next step, and that is Empowerment. To define what is precious to you, what is fulfulling to you, what is achievement to you, etc and to act on one's destiny.
It is sad sometimes that we are easily influence by external situations rather than internal choices. Thus, we are our own pandora's box to be clouded by our own web of confusion.
This circumstances is what i call Ascending and Descending.
Note: I love arts, and MC Escher is one of my favourite because of his unique style. He fused architecture, mathematics (symmetry), drawing as one. Each of his art piece is truly a masterpiece by themselves.
The eluding question is, from the drawings, are the people going upstair or downstair?