The next point in the ideal state of being is I know, opposed by I know not. Doubts, worries, grinding efforts at study, all these are simply gradients between I know and I know not. What man does not quiver a trifle when confronted with the unknown?
The next point in an ideal is serene. This drops away, and at the bottom rung, having gone downwards through exhilaration, enthusiasm, cheerfulness, antagonism, anger, fear, grief and apathy, is dead.
Trust is the ideal point on the scale of trust–distrust. The most distrustful one can become is, again, dead.
The ideal point of longevity would be always in a perfect body. The bottom of that scale would again be dead.
Full responsibility would be an ideal, opposed by no responsibility as an undesirable state.
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