What is life?People who have felt both happiness and sadness can answer.
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Biblically I must say yes
It does seem that one can only appreciate something if it's better than something else,which could be true. However, the Bible implies that in the garden of eden and in heaven, there is much happiness without unhappiness. This seems to mean that the idea I opened with does not include happiness. A baby comes out of it's mother crying, so for the baby, it would seem that unhappiness is the first of the two emotions. I wouldn't expect to be happy until I'm sad, but then, if that is so, how could I be sad until I'm happy? If we need to compare we need something to compare to, and therefore, one of them must exist first. Biblically, happiness existed first. Perhaps we can only feel happy because we have felt sad/unhappy.
Contentedness to Happiness
I believe, however unlikely, that happiness can exist without sadness. This is life though and nothing remains constant or truly lie within the extremes.
Happiness and its polar opposite, Sadness, can be viewed as an axis. Another axis pertaining to the extremes of neutrality can align itself perpendicularly with the initial axis. One end represents Extreme Neutrality (The Absence of Happiness and Sadness) and the other representing the Neutral Extremes (Possessing both Happiness and Sadness) Thus we create a simple plane with four quadrants.
Within one quadrant lies the boundaries of Extreme Neutrality to Happiness. Thus an individual may live their entire life with emotions ranging from the lack of any particular emotion at all to happiness. Hypothetically of-course. ^^ Hardly anything is so simple.
Happiness and Sadness exist because of the other
The way we feel about something is defined by a comparison to something else. If all we could feel was "happiness", then we wouldn't believe "happiness" to be anything special or "good". It's necessary to have some sort of contrast, otherwise there would be no reason to define something as "happiness". Contentedness doesn't fill in here, because anything less than your "happy" state would have to be defined as "sad"
It does seem that one can only appreciate something if it's better than something else,which could be true. However, the Bible implies that in the garden of eden and in heaven, there is much happiness without unhappiness. This seems to mean that the idea I opened with does not include happiness. A baby comes out of it's mother crying, so for the baby, it would seem that unhappiness is the first of the two emotions. I wouldn't expect to be happy until I'm sad, but then, if that is so, how could I be sad until I'm happy? If we need to compare we need something to compare to, and therefore, one of them must exist first. Biblically, happiness existed first. Perhaps we can only feel happy because we have felt sad/unhappy.
Contentedness to Happiness
I believe, however unlikely, that happiness can exist without sadness. This is life though and nothing remains constant or truly lie within the extremes.
Happiness and its polar opposite, Sadness, can be viewed as an axis. Another axis pertaining to the extremes of neutrality can align itself perpendicularly with the initial axis. One end represents Extreme Neutrality (The Absence of Happiness and Sadness) and the other representing the Neutral Extremes (Possessing both Happiness and Sadness) Thus we create a simple plane with four quadrants.
Within one quadrant lies the boundaries of Extreme Neutrality to Happiness. Thus an individual may live their entire life with emotions ranging from the lack of any particular emotion at all to happiness. Hypothetically of-course. ^^ Hardly anything is so simple.
Happiness and Sadness exist because of the other
The way we feel about something is defined by a comparison to something else. If all we could feel was "happiness", then we wouldn't believe "happiness" to be anything special or "good". It's necessary to have some sort of contrast, otherwise there would be no reason to define something as "happiness". Contentedness doesn't fill in here, because anything less than your "happy" state would have to be defined as "sad"
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Feeling sad is a state of mind. When we feel low, when our expectations do not meet up, when we don’t get what we desire, it is all nothing but a state of sadness. The state of happiness is exactly opposite. Where things start working out as per our expectations, and our needs get fulfilled, we feel the happiness from within.
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