The basic difference between happiness and sadness is in their depth. To be truly happy, all you have to do is decide that you want to be happy. That’s the beauty of it. You have a choice at all times in deciding whether you want to be happy or not. The same is not true for sadness. Something has to affect you deeply, and with depth to make you sad. This depth is what makes them different.
Even so, we generally think that happiness is good and sadness isn’t. Though that might be quite true in the short term, in the long term, it’s not. Sadness helps humanity create. Happiness makes humanity be happy. With sadness we are inspired to change or improve certain things, with happiness we are happy to be happy.
There needs to be real depth in sadness, and I’m quite sure that without sadness, we would not be able to feel any depth in our own lives. Sadness is one of the tools to become happy: much like how failure is often the tool to success.
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