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We thrive on sadness. I don't.
We know sadness more than happiness. Do we?
Sadness seems to be easier to articulate. Then please articulate it, I have great difficulty articulating sadness. In fact, I think happiness might be easier, but that tends to be in terms of colours and textures in my case. Assuming you meant the same thing I do by these terms, which it doesn't sound like you do.
This isn't to say that happiness should be thrust aside, or is without merit, but we perhaps embrace sadness more than happiness? Even if we feel it more often, which is contestable and context dependent, is that embracing it more often?
So can we really be happy? Yes. Why not? Being able to feel more than one thing doesn't stop you being able to feel any of them. Assuming being happy involves feeling happy?
We need sadness to be happy. Why?
Happiness with a captial H does seem to be unreachable. What gives it a capitalisation? Can any feeling be capitalised? If not, why bother saying Happiness particularly is impossible?
My own opinion is that we rely on sadness more than we rely on happiness. I am not necessarily talking morbidly, such as death, as it has been stated, but rather we find happiness in sadness, we pass through sadness to reach happiness. Our engagements with the world as well as movies, music, art, conversations, relationships, you name it. Perhaps this is superficial, but we do pass through sadness more often to reach happiness. So, because we can, in your eyes, pass through sadness to happiness, this means passing through sadness is the only way to be happy?
This isn't again to denote happiness, but rather to ask the question:
We seem to experience sadness and to need it, more often than not. So is happiness really an existent? Is it something that we can aspire to or could ever obtain? Will we always sad? I don't understand the relationship you seem to be suggesting between being sad and not being able to be happy.
If not, explain why you think this is not the case... the same for if you think this is the case. If you explain your terms and limit them sufficiently, this might possibly work. Otherwise, I disagree because, to me, they are two states-of-mind, they are not mutually exclusive, but they also aren't the same, as indicated by the way we ascribe them to different things. I am often happy without feeling sad. As I am often happy, I don't think happiness is impossible.
This seems to be the case for me. But what does it actually mean? If you mean the same by those terms as I do, I feel very sorry for you. |
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