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Happiness
and sadness are not opposite sides of the same coin;
they are sides of
different coins.
Both are
necessary in
any complete life. If you’re feeling sad, sometimes you
just have to
accept
that sadness is part of life. Would you value your
happiness as much if
you’ve
never been sad? Could you say you really knew
happiness if you’d never met unhappiness? Carl Jung,
founder of
analytical
psychiatry, noted that the “word ‘happy’ would lose its
meaning if it
were not
compensated by some sadness.”
Of all
the many conversations Eric Weiner had during his
worldwide exploration
of “the
geography of bliss,” none stuck with him more than the
comment of a
musician in
the happy city of Nurture
your
melancholy and
use it as an opportunity for personal growth or better
self-understanding.
Melancholy is critical to an understanding of what it
means to be
human. It leads,
as
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