Cause And Effect Essay On Happiness

People are always searching for the perfect way to live. They go on rediscovering trips, looking for balance in their life, trying to discover out who they are and who they are meant to be. Happiness is vital to have a good life, but there is a such thing as too much. Everything needs limits, including the amount of emotions you contain in your life. Although happiness is the main point of having a happy life, it is not the only emotion humans rely on to be happy.

All emotions are pertinent to having balance. In an article, it states, “...chasing after happiness can be just as self­ defeating as brooding and bottling up your emotions.”(David, 126). Some of the emotions people must possess are happiness, anger, sadness, fear, trust, and serenity. Having too much or too little

Sadness is what causes depression, and depression is the cause of suicide and self harm. Though this emotion causes all theses problems in human life, it is also a huge benefit. Sadness is both the creation and solution for itself; it is the realization of a problem, and the signals to others to save one from one’s own grief. Any time a person is upset or sad, he/she frowns or cries, and one’s entire attitude shuts down. People around that sad person see all the signs of his/her grief, and react accordingly. If one were to look at many cases of suicide, one would find someone without many social ties, someone who did not seem sad when he/she was alive, or both. Victims of suicide do not commonly show how upset he/she is inside, and just go through life pretending to be happy, not expressing one’s true feelings of sadness. Because of this, he/she never confronts his/her true feelings, and build up with confusion, not knowing what to do, which causes him/her to resort to suicide. Sadness is what makes people realize he/she has a problem, and what makes other people realize he/she needs