Jorge Cham and PhD comics

The recent 'Science' issue (Vol 323(5922)) has published profile of Dr. Jorge Cham. He is the master-mind of one of the most popular comic among grad students, the PhD comics. He is a Stanford PhD graduate and was very close to become a Professor in MIT but somehow that didn't work out. In fact, his story is a classic example of "to pick one thing and be really good at it". If you get hold of this article, please read it as the story is quite interesting. I just want to thank him for seemingly funny, but extremely useful, PhD comics.

Good time - bad time

What do you think about your present time? Is it a good time, i.e., things are happening which will please you or is it a bad time where everything seems against you? I am asking this question because past couple of weeks were messy for me and I am confused. There was a good news and on the other hand, a terrible thing happen unexpectedly. Such times gives rise to more confusion. You can not enjoy your success which you would have in normal days. You will not lose sleep due to bad thing because something good also happened.
I always believed that whatever happened, analyze it only after few months or even years. One may be surprised that the thing which he thought extremely bad at that particular time was not all that bad, and sometimes, that was the best thing to happen which led to some particular successful event. So, is there really something like a good time or bad time? or everything is just relative? :)