Lost and Found

This might sound weird but I like feeling sad sometimes. Of course not liking when bad things happen, not when people suffer, but personally feeling sadness as an emotion seems to be important in some ways. I mean, if you can feel the pain at least that means you're not dead, right? Also, when it's sadness over personal things, excluding serious things, such as when people are suffering, it's a contrast to happiness, so that we can appreciate and see the happiness when it's there. (Not quite the same way how in the autumn everything is dying and it's so beautiful, that's not what I mean).

So yes, sometimes there is sadness, but in some ways that's okay.

Then again, there are days when I'm tired of feeling sad and just want to feel genuinely happy

Also, that doesn't mean that you should always want to be sad because if being sad is the only thing that makes you happy then you're missing something.

But that's okay too, because when something is missing or there is something to be longing for then that means there is something wonderful to be found. Whether you had it before or never did, whether it takes years or the blink of an eye to find for the first, second, or last time, we are all essentially seekers of the same things. I won't try to say what it is here, because I want you to hear what its name is in your own mind. Some people have given up looking and if you find yourself in that situation then know that does not mean you can't start again.

I think sometimes people are afraid to start again because they're afraid to see how far they have gone from a place that they were once happy with, but then that's where the saying comes in: Happiness is not a destination, it is a journey.