With real joy comes real pain.
With real joy comes real pain.Any time we fully experience true joy or feel the
preciousness of life on an emotional level, we can
expect to feel a great amount of sadness. Many
of us shy away from the things that would make
us happiest, because they also make us feel pain.
The opposite is also true. We cannot selectively
numb ourselves to sadness without numbing
ourselves to joy. When it comes to falling in love,
we may be hesitant to go “all in,” for fear of the
sadness it would stir up in us.