Can Happiness Survive Without Sorrow? 💛
Is evil, or suffering necessary for us to feel a sense of happiness in our lives?
Are they both intertwined?
Happiness has to coincide with suffering, right?
Happiness comes from a feeling of being above the common sense of indifference and suffering when you are below. They are yin and yang of each other; you cannot be happy until you experience something different or else being happy may just be as natural as you breathe. There is nothing special about it; it is just there.
Some may say that being content only gets it' meaning as it is opposed to sadness and it is utterly impossible to have only one or the other. One cannot be overly happy or too sad, one exists as both states just like a cosine wave, always fluctuating back and forth. You couldn't put a human in a situation good enough or bad enough to keep it on either the positive or negative side indefinitely, but we have a rollercoaster of emotions constantly fluctuating between glee and dejection.
You Can Be Happy Without Feeling Sorrow
Despite the fact you may believe you can't have one without the other I'll look at the other perspective. If we were to say we can be happy without feeling sad, then that may be because happiness is a natural reaction to what pleases us. We do not learn to be happy, and we do not learn what happiness is, we merely experience it.
I guess if you need one without the other if we base the fact we live in a world of duality then would you need to have known what cold felt like to experience flames incinerating your hands? I believe that the experience of suffering makes one appreciate the moments of his happiness more, but by no means do we automatically cease to comprehend what happiness is because sadness is gone. It acts as a way to enhance a moment of serenity, but we don't need gloom to be content.
All in all, if we look at it from this perspective, It can create deeper happiness. I believe that happiness has been reduced to a trite and straightforward understanding of something that is far more complicated than we realise.
Great article. That quote from Rajneesh sums it all up, doesn't it?
Upvoted & RESTEEMED :]
It is a really great quote that I found really enthralling and summative.
Thanks for you support @msg768! <3
Aaaannd...his eyes.My god.
You wouldn't know that you are Happy if you have never been Sad.
I believe that Happiness happens when we Grow as an individual, and that Sadness happens when we are in a place of stagnation, when we limit ourselves to the limited given circumstances.
I believe that Happiness is when you have found what you Love and share it with everyone else in the world.
And Sadness is when you haven't done that. So sadness is a guide that points you towards Happiness. It's an indicator of where you're at. If you're sad, you're not Happy, so you're not where you are meant to be, thus keep going forward.
Great post brother @Arckrai!Thanks for sharing. Following now :)
@arckrai as i use to say your understanding determine your stand.
This is my submission : Without the bad, there would be no good. Without the sad there would be no happy. Without the pain there would be no joy. Without the hate there would be no love. Without you there would be no me. Without your eyes you wouldn't be able to see. Why cant you just see that I love you, with all my heart. That without you there isn't a me. I'm just a lost soul trying to fit into a world that I don't belong in without you.
Awesome post buddy.
A very thought provoking post, very well written. Upvoted and followed.
Thank you so much @elaine54 for your support.
It means a lot to me! :)
We learn, experience and live from contrast. Without differences, there would be no point of reference. I think the most important thing is that while there cannot be joy without sorrow, generally speaking, that doesn't mean that we have to suffer to "earn" happiness. We can work to make suffering momentary and fleeting, and happiness longer-lasting. We need not justify one with the other.
Both is essential! When you don't experience bad you won't appreciatte good
Very Nice Post Thanks !!
Thank You.
If there has happiness all the time, life would be boring,right?
sometimes sorrow need to find the value of life though we did not want sorrow.
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