THE HAPPY-SAD CYCLE.

ONLY ONCE ONE HAS KNOWN REAL SADNESS, CAN ONE FEEL REAL HAPPINESS.

Like it is rightly said, happiness and sadness are like sun and moon; when one goes, the other comes. But both are ephemeral. You don’t stay sad or be in a state of content all the time. Life is not fair and that what makes it livable. Agreeing with the given statement is easy. Not because it is some predefined notion stated by some great philosopher, but it fits apt on my life too. Or to be precise, would fit well to anybody’s and everybody’s life.

 

I’ll start with taking a non-fictitious example from everyday life, Heartbreak. It is an event that one generally experiences in his lifetime, at least once. Be it some teenage infatuation-love break up or some serious committed relationship coming to an end. On an average, almost 70%, not statistically though, get into depression, not only the one that goads them to commit some serious thing but it deteriorates them from inside to a large extent. Then happiness seems feeble enough to be real. But then as life is meant to be, happiness knocks our door in any possible way. Reconciling with life again, gives a new definition to it and then that feeling becomes superior to any other feeling going on.

 

Considering some obstinate child needs or wants, which are useless to some extent, also fall in to this description. A 5 year old kid will cry his heart out if he doesn’t get his desired, once seen, toy! But as parents are, making sure that the child is not spoilt, disciplined, they sometimes decline to their demands. But just as the house gets filled with the air of melancholy, all because the child is unhappy, parents give up! Honestly, they have to! And just when the toy appears in front of the kid, God! The exuberance of the baby spreads throughout the house, making it a HOME*again, more than a house! So see; happiness is majorly valued after you’ve known what sadness feels like.

 

Happiness is the state of being true to you, in all conditions; without any burden of lies hanging around. Just as you realize the importance of somebody, or your favorite thing, after losing or separating from them, similarly, you revere happiness after you’ve felt the roughness of life. To conclude, happiness and sadness run after each other. The more you experience one, the stronger you become, to face life with all its weapons. So just when life throws a googly; don’t be defensive, just play along and then hitting a 4 or a 6 won’t be that difficult. Surely.