Relative happiness

In his book,Viktor Frankl suggests that love and happiness must be balanced out by suffering. He sites the fact that some prisoners find extreme happiness in the sunset because they have no other source of happiness in their life. He suggests that the contrast between suffering and love, gives meaning to both.

I believe that Frankl's argument is correct. The only way to measure something is in terms of something else. without a baseline, nothing can have meaning. Everything is relative. Therefore, happiness and suffering must rely on one another for meaning. in order to suffer, you have to know what happiness is, and in order to be happiness you must know what suffering is. After a long practice, coming home and resting or eating is much more satisfying than had I not had practice.