Today I was thinking about pain. Yeah, pain. Not physical pain but moral pain, hopeless pain, the pain of the heart, the pain that when not described by the mouth, flows through the eyes.
I was also thinking about happiness. Yeah happiness! Not physical pleasure but moral happiness, "cheerful happiness", the happiness of the moment, the happiness that can be translated by the wideness of a smile or the by brightness of the eyes.
So I decided to balance them and got into a personal conclusion: Have you EVER realised that we can feel the same pain over and over again but not the same pleasure? This makes happiness more rare!
I mean, we can go through the same pain, like the pain of a lost parent, the pain of the regret, the pain of a lost love, the pain of missing a person and it will always feel like the same and we can go through it over and over again that it will feel the same. Of course that one can be more intense then the other, but not the same pleasure.
For example, I tell a joke to a big group of friends, the first time everybody laughs, then I tell the same joke again and not all of them laugh, so I tell it again and just one laughs. Laughing is a pleasure, is a kind of a momentary happiness, but you do not feel the same pleasure over and over again and that is what makes happiness more rare! I think that is why we have to go through both: HAPPINESS and PAIN/ SADNESS, otherwise how could we know the taste of happiness if we have never been sad or feeling in pain? I doubt we would know the difference... Also the pain, the mistakes and sadness, at some point, make us grow stronger, wiser and prepared for the "real life" that we have ahead of us on our everyday, they are the teachers of the life. Teaching us in the worst but remarkable way, a way that is painful but will never be forgotten. Erring is a natural human condition, but persisting on the error is stupidity.
"Without pain there is no perfect word, as without happiness there is no point on living."
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