Decent_Love: How are happiness and sorrow related to each other?
Bad times help us to appreciate the good times like the bizarre euphoria at the end of an hour's vomiting. And the reverse. The most privileged people ever to have lived will feel hard done by in the end.
The value of something easily obtained is less and gives less happiness. The value of a thing obtained with great effort and difficulty is very high and gives more pleasure.
ChesneyChrist: Bad times help us to appreciate the good times like the bizarre euphoria at the end of an hour's vomiting. And the reverse. The most privileged people ever to have lived will feel hard done by in the end.
Sorrow maintains the value of happiness. Maybe there is no existence of happiness without sorrow.
ChesneyChrist: Bad times help us to appreciate the good times like the bizarre euphoria at the end of an hour's vomiting. And the reverse. The most privileged people ever to have lived will feel hard done by in the end.
In the words of Blake excessive joy weeps and excessive sorrow laughs. Feel anything strongly enough and it becomes the opposite, madness will intervene to save you from the extremity of your thoughts.
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