I thought it gave a strong sense of overall balance in life. For every negative action, every tragedy, every evil act, there's good right there to settle the scales again.
There was hope, I felt that much, but there was also a sense of stifling insignificance. All that those people went through, in the end, meant nothing to the rest of the world. The final crash gave the impression that, no matter how much we change on an individual level, it does little, if anything, to alter the world around us.
Though, thinking about it, that's where the real changes seem to start. At the individual level.