Sadness

As early as I could remember myself, my memories have been colored with

melancholy and sad feelings. Yes, I admit it: I am a person who loves being sad.
As a child, I loved gloomy fairy tales; as a teenager, I loved tragic novels and
films, which made my parents worry a lot. I realized that I did not meet their
expectations: in their ideal world, a happy person must irradiate joy all the time.
In my view, this state of constant life enjoyment looked slightly idiotic. And I
kept asking myself if sadness is really so bad.

One of the points, which I have discovered, is that people very seldom
differentiate between sadness and misery and mistake one feeling for the other,
although they are very different in nature. Misery can only be caused by some
deeply traumatic experience; however, sadness in a natural middle between
being extremely happy and feeling deep sorrow.

Another important issue is that sadness often accompanies the process of

thinking, consideration, and evaluation. If, for example, you once watch the
facial expression of a person who is writing something deep in thought, you will
see that he/she looks sad.

Furthermore, sadness is absolutely natural: almost all our important events in

life are colored with it. We feel it when we have to leave a place where we felt
good, we experience it when we are happy because deep down we all know it
will not last forever, when parents see their children getting married, they are
happy, but at the same time they are sad, because their kids have grown up.

So, sadness is positive. Next time you wake up in the morning and realize you
feel sad, do not get upset, it only means you are normal and experience the
whole range of emotions.