Only once one has known real sadness can one feel true happiness
Human beings are driven by emotions and logics. The two major emotions felt by humans are happiness and sadness. Any event or happening that makes us feel disappointed or not good, or drives our actions by sorrow is sadness. Happiness on the other hand is something that we feel when we feel good about something, or when something gives us pleasure, joy, content and satisfaction. However, only once has one known real sadness can one feel true happiness. This statement is not entirely true. Happiness and sadness are like the two sides of the same coin. They are completely opposite yet related to a single base. But how can we define something as true sadness or true happiness? Something that gives me immense happiness today might not incorporate the same intensity of the feeling in the future. Something that makes me truely sad today, might not affect me to the same extent tomorrow. So bolstering the given topic is not right.
The definition of true happiness and true sadness is different from person to person. As humans, we are emotionally erratic and tend to change our opinions and get used to our surroundings eventually. Our brain registers to emotions and stimuli in such a way that something which is new and fascinationg to us today might not feel the same few days later. Let us consider the following example of Mahatma Gandhi. He's called the father of the nation and has sacrificed a lot for us. He fought for the freedom of the nation and was assassinated due to his act of non violence and his role in the freedom movement. The day he was assassinated was a shock for the nation. A person then must have felt very sad and dejected due to Gandhi's death and maybe that was true sadness for the citizens of India then. But do the citizens of India feel the exact same emotions today? So how can they also realize the true meaning of the freedom they get today? True happiness to a school kid might be getting the first rank in the exam, even when he has been getting the best scores in every exam and has never failed or come in the second position. He has not experienced the sadness of failing and yet getting the best scores fulfills his target of true happiness.
Another such example is the example of Steve Jobs from Apple. The person worked hard all his life to create his dream company and needless to say, the day Apple was inaugurated as a brand and as a company, there must be nobody happier than Mr Jobs. However, he faced multiple challenges in the later part of his life and had to give up on the company for his own well being. His decisions weren't derived by the fact of true happiness or true sadness, because if that was the case, Steve Jobs would have stayed in office till the last day of his life.
Hence, in conclusion I can say that, true sadness and true happiness are distinct and variable. They do not depend on each other. There may be some cases where the two might collide and depend on few factors common to both, but aren't there exceptions to every thing on earth. Therefore, one does not need to experience true sadness to appreciate the value or feel true happiness.
Human beings are driven by emotions and logics. The two major emotions felt by humans are happiness and sadness. Any event or happening that makes us feel disappointed or not good, or drives our actions by sorrow is sadness. Happiness on the other hand is something that we feel when we feel good about something, or when something gives us pleasure, joy, content and satisfaction. However, only once has one known real sadness can one feel true happiness. This statement is not entirely true. Happiness and sadness are like the two sides of the same coin. They are completely opposite yet related to a single base. But how can we define something as true sadness or true happiness? Something that gives me immense happiness today might not incorporate the same intensity of the feeling in the future. Something that makes me truely sad today, might not affect me to the same extent tomorrow. So bolstering the given topic is not right.
The definition of true happiness and true sadness is different from person to person. As humans, we are emotionally erratic and tend to change our opinions and get used to our surroundings eventually. Our brain registers to emotions and stimuli in such a way that something which is new and fascinationg to us today might not feel the same few days later. Let us consider the following example of Mahatma Gandhi. He's called the father of the nation and has sacrificed a lot for us. He fought for the freedom of the nation and was assassinated due to his act of non violence and his role in the freedom movement. The day he was assassinated was a shock for the nation. A person then must have felt very sad and dejected due to Gandhi's death and maybe that was true sadness for the citizens of India then. But do the citizens of India feel the exact same emotions today? So how can they also realize the true meaning of the freedom they get today? True happiness to a school kid might be getting the first rank in the exam, even when he has been getting the best scores in every exam and has never failed or come in the second position. He has not experienced the sadness of failing and yet getting the best scores fulfills his target of true happiness.
Another such example is the example of Steve Jobs from Apple. The person worked hard all his life to create his dream company and needless to say, the day Apple was inaugurated as a brand and as a company, there must be nobody happier than Mr Jobs. However, he faced multiple challenges in the later part of his life and had to give up on the company for his own well being. His decisions weren't derived by the fact of true happiness or true sadness, because if that was the case, Steve Jobs would have stayed in office till the last day of his life.
Hence, in conclusion I can say that, true sadness and true happiness are distinct and variable. They do not depend on each other. There may be some cases where the two might collide and depend on few factors common to both, but aren't there exceptions to every thing on earth. Therefore, one does not need to experience true sadness to appreciate the value or feel true happiness.
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