The concept of backsliding could not exist unless there was something to backslide to.
All thought processes are polarized, so there is no black without white, no up without down, no right without wrong .. etc.
We are all plagued with our flesh and our past and as Paul writes, we are to "die daily" .. but comforting to me at least is the fact that God remembers that I am but clay.
I try and I fail, I succeed and I lose, I'm high and I'm low ... only in heaven will all tears be wiped away.