Positive And Negative Emotions

Happiness is everywhere, it is in everything. Happiness is what creates strong relationships with one another.

However, if one did not experience negative emotions no one would truly know happiness. Only experiencing positive emotions leaves one restless in the search for bigger and better things rather than what they are currently experiencing. Negative emotions are what one experiences on a bad day when they are worried or anxious. It is what one feels when they are feeling down and need to be cheered up again. Though negative emotions seem bad, they are just as beneficial as positive emotions. Negative emotions allow one to experience genuine happiness. Negative emotions also create logical arguments by allowing one to think thoroughly and stay focused. Negative emotions also improve one’s memory by not allowing intruding thoughts to impair memory. Negative emotions are not always bad.

Positive emotions are empowering and can make you feel confident and worthy. However, without negative emotions like fear, anger, and sadness one would never experience genuine happiness. This is because if one only experienced positive emotions they would begin to take happiness for granted and it would become something “normal.” Once happiness begins to feel “normal” then one begins to start looking for more happiness or happiness in other places. Once one has become used to the happiness they will begin to try to “find lusher land just over the hill” (Kluger 26). This essentially means