Emotional Continuum?

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

Absolute happiness? No way. Life has ups and downs. To truly appreciate the ups we have to experience the downs. I personally wouldn't even want to reach a point where I could sit back and say, "Now I will be happy forever." How boring is that? Plus...and this is something I've only recently learned...looking back on the bad times I've gone through in my life, I can almost always see some good that came out of those times.

Mixing a little unhappiness/sorrow/pain in is essential. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I agree, if we didn't have down moments in our life we could never really truly appreciate the good things in our life... A quote I heard once was "I guess some people have a lot to be happy about. Either that or we blow out our expectations so much we've given up on anything better." I think it's a pretty accurate quote.

Jam it back in, in the dark.