You’ll be happy if you take sadness as your constant partner

When I read someone citing a quotation recently that “we can’t escape happiness in life”, I went into “search mode” for all the reasons for a reasonable answer. After all, most of us are more used to saying that sadness is our “only constant friend”.

Life is a long journey with so many ups and downs; but how many of us realise that it is the “downs” that give us a chance to catapult ourselves to the heights of happiness. We can, therefore, say that sadness is an unavoidable partner in our journey on this planet.

Happiness comes when sadness ends on account of the universal law that nothing lasts forever. Just as you are blessed with the brightness of daytime soon after the darkness of night ends, happiness is born out of sadness coming to an end as things change for the better. And life’s journey is thus sustained and your hopes kept alive.

Of course, you have to be “on the go” all the time. It is only action that gets reaction, and good actions always get good reactions, thereby making things around us better, and the happiness index going higher.

Also, as American comedian Lucille Ball said, “At times, you have to be in a position to recognise what makes you happy.” Otherwise, you get trapped into a state of utter confusion that turns your world darker by the day.

Even if you feel you can’t set out to do any challenging task, you becoming a good and affectionate person can work wonders. As former queen of Scotland Mary Stuart said, “To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”