Examples Of Sad Moments Essay

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Think of your happy moments. Now think of your sad moments. Now that you have thought of them, compare the two. Which one do you enjoy more? The happy ones, right? If we didn’t have those sad moments how would we know what true happiness is. Think about it. If you didn’t feel any of those emotions like in the giver. You just felt calm and down to earth all the time. How would we even truly know happiness, let alone sadness. Embrace the sad moments but only enough to truly know what the happy moments are. When people think of sadness they think of crying, sometimes isolating yourself when that isn’t exactly true. In some cases it is but that is more common for people with anxiety, depression, ocd, etc. and that is because they naturally can have more sad moments. I should know I have bad anxiety and most nights I stay in my room because I don’t want to talk with people and I have faked being sick to get out of going to social events. Anxiety doesn’t define me as a person. You may be wondering, how does this go with anything? It goes with both. In H.B. they have short memories but they still have emotions so they don’t remember why they are sad but if you think beyond just those people then the people with mental disorders like anxiety may not remember why they are anxious. In the giver people could easily still have these disorders …show more content…

Funny, in order to be happy you need be sad. So how do we know only feeling happiness makes a perfect society? Let that sink in, if we only have happiness what happens to anger, frustration and even opinion. To always be happy they would have to get rid of sickness/disease, poverty, hunger, water droughts, racism, suicide, anxiety, depression, animal abuse, child abuse, drug abuse, kidnaping, school shootings, murder. I could make a whole page of everything but I think you see the

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