Sadness and Happiness

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Sadness and Happiness

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

                                                                 C. G. Jung

During our lives many things happen that make us sad, and with the years we learn to deal with loss, deception, and grief. There are also days when we wake up sad without knowing why.

We don’t want to be sad, so we try different strategies to flee from sadness. Constant searching for entertainment, eating or drinking too much - you name it. Very often these strategies make us feel even more miserable. Instead, we should welcome sadness when it arrives. 

Take the time to sit with that uneasiness and feel it all the way, in your whole body and mind. Let sadness wake you up to the complexity and fullness of life. When you touch your own sadness and pain, you naturally feel empathy for the sadness and pain of others. Fully felt sadness makes us grow.

And as sure as after rain there will be sunshine, after sad days there will be happy days.