I Never Thought There Was Such Sadness In Happiness

The world will break your heart in every way imaginable. This is a guarantee and I cannot explain it, as well as the madness I carry within me or the madness that others drive. Life is never fair but you must face the falls and move on. And when you have a broken heart you will have to rebuild it and not only that, you will have to trust again and this is the hardest part. Despite all this, even if life betrays all your illusions, you must keep dreaming, do you know why? Because if you don’t create illusions, because if you don’t dream, because if you don’t love, what kind of life are you going to be living?What’s the use of life if you’re not enjoying it? You can’t live in fear all your life. That’s life: you fall, get up and fall again. But if you don’t even move for fear of falling, you’ve actually already sunk.

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I’ve come across people in my life who didn’t know how to build with the stones found in their path.  Instead, they stumbled or carried them over their shoulders. I’ve done it myself.

In fact, as Benedetti said, I never thought that happiness had such sadness. In fact I thought the opposite, that happiness was a thornless roses path and not stones or impossible paths. But I was wrong, and that you only begin to understand when you are prepared to be happy. Happiness implies suffering, it is a strange condition because only the strong resist.

What an irony, isn’t it? The truth is, it’s not so weird to think that happiness implies fulfillment, which is an emotional balance that also needs sadness and obstacles.

sadness is also important

That’s why today I’m convinced that I need sadness and pain to do everything I propose. It is a sin not to take advantage of the effort involved in recovering after a fall.

I won’t lie, I didn’t always get up so easily after a fall, and I think it’s the most natural thing in the world. It’s precisely in defeat that I learned the most, because seeing myself shrouded in darkness made me realize that it’s worth getting up, even if the storm was devastating.

In the end, you ca n’t see the rainbow without some rain. I think that having understood this makes me a lucky person, and no doubt life has treated me with consideration giving me its lessons. In other words, I came to the conclusion that on our path both the good and the bad go together. And this is nothing negative, but necessary.

In fact, the most wonderful things in the world are guided by this hardness: with life comes death, and with it a farewell. Love protects itself from madness, but lack of love can win the battle and the most wonderful moments also end. That’s exactly what makes them special. It is necessary to be attentive to the signs to be able to see when life presents us with our moment. And if we believe we should see or do something, let us feel the need to keep looking for the best way to do it.

Never stop doing something for fear of losing.  Remember that in happiness there is also sadness and that this is not a price to pay, but something that we have to compensate.

If we fall, it may be because we are walking along new paths.

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