Can Everyone Find The Happiness Without Sadness?

Happiness and sadness is part of our lives. These two are an emotional feeling that we can experience anytime, anywise and anywhere. Happiness will never be a stand-alone feeling that we could experience, it's a correlation of sadness at all circumstances.

(I'm wondering right now, why can we still be happy or feel better at sad feeling, but we can't feel sadness if we were at the moment of happiness? haha, kinda weird.)

Happiness can be caused of anything. It can be from in a person, just like our family, friends, and loved one's. Maybe circumstances, graduation, or marriage. How about from things, our luxuries or just things that we dreamt to have. Probably, some of us can found happiness in 'success' or achievements. Contentment, or having self-love and self-worth. It's just, happiness could be found on many reasons. Could be found in the aftermath of one of these.

On the other hand, sadness is caused of many things. Commonly in struggles, frustration, failures, and misfortunes.

Now, can everyone find the happiness without sadness?

Personally, it's literally a NO. As what i've said, we can still feel better at the moment of emotional pain because i do believe that sadness could be a key to happiness. If there's no sadness at all, we can't measure the happiness we will feel in the present. Happiness can only measure by the depth of personal sadness.

We can't find the happiness without sadness. Happiness is just a termination of sadness.

— The height of happiness, the height of sadness.

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Just think of it, happiness is contentment. Imagine that you believed in the quote that “success is the key to happiness.” So, to be able to you to be contented in your life, you must be to succeed. And when you're already one upon of success people, you felt contentment or simply, your happiness is fulfilled. But, how did you measure your happiness if you don't experience the failures while striving for your goals? If you don't experience the hardships and frustrations?

In another instance, a couple needs to distance to each other or have a long-distance relationship because they need to finish their studies and reach their goals. They decided to have a long-distance relationship, even it's complicated and uncertain. Now, they're successful and engaged to each other. The measure of happiness they felt right now is priceless, so how did they measure their happiness if they don't experience and overcome the struggles of a long-distance relationship? Without struggles, the heights of their happiness couldn't be measure at all.

The greatest of the happiness that we felt right now, the greatest of the sadness that we had in the past. Happiness will never found without sadness, but happiness can judge by the pain or sadness that provides of life.

Rajneesh once said, “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”

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It's just, we can't appreciate the happiness if we haven't learned the sadness that we had once.

Happiness has no meaning without sadness.

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