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What is it about sadness that gives a sense of realness to life. Why does happiness feel comparatively fake?

Maybe my question is wrong. Maybe I’m comparing a state of deep emotion (sadness) with a state of superficial emotion (contentness). But even feelings of Euphoria can feel superficial in retrospect

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I think I feel most alive and paradoxically ‘the best’ when I’m absolutely sad and listening to melancholic music. Maybe it’s because those are the moments that relate us to eachother the most. Anyway I’m there now. Feeling low and also somehow higher than I’ve felt in months

There may be a neurological explanation.

“Transient sadness and happiness affect different brain regions in divergent directions and are not merely opposite activity in identical brain regions”.

George et al. (1995). https://doi.org/gjhnf9

cc: our resident neuroscientist @christin

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Very interesting thanks for sharing! Could only read the abstract, the neurological evidence supports what I’ve always thought; that happiness and sadness are not opposite. Both can be beautiful experiences in their own way. I’d prefer sadness to a feeling of numbness, agitation, deep anxiety or depression any time

Sadness is a great time to look inward and happiness is a great time to look outward. Sounds like you enjoy looking in. A fun experiment could be to look the opposite way the next time you feel those emotions. Check what you see and how you feel about them.

I feel like any emotion feels real when you’re experiencing it and pretty superficial when you’re not. Sadness is often accompanied by lots of thinking as opposed to something like euphoria or anger where you’re riding a wave, so that probably makes it feel more ‘deep’

Why would you want to feel sad 

“Because sad is happy for deep people” 

But fr don’t get too too sad now plz 💜

Sadness peels away the protective shell around your true feelings, drawing you nearer to God and to your inner self. By embracing sadness, you unlock the path to genuine happiness, realizing that life's control lies beyond your grasp.