It is said happiness punctuates life...it is never consistent. how far is it true?

Question

Happiness is not permanent ....so is sorrow. Joy and sorrow alternately appear in one's life. But is that wholly true? Is it not that sorrow is permanent in some people's life. Have you come across such people?!

Answer 1

Happiness is always consistent. If u dont find it in ur self try to find in others. Thats the real life and happiness.

Answer 2

I think i understand your question. I don't think you are following the relationship well between Happiness and Sorrow. This is like the question why do good thing keep happening to bad people and vice versa? Happiness and sorrow are reactions to events that happen in your life. You wake up and you are happy. Are you happy because you woke up, or did you wake up because you are happy? You could argue both, but; the person who thought up this saying obviously thought experience precedes emotion.
maybe emotion precedes experience. One thing is true people feed off of emotion, their emotion, other people's emotion as well. If life deals you lemons you can make lemonade. And you can waste time crying over spilt milk if you want to. Or, you can walk around with a smile on your face and make people wonder what makes you so happy. I will tell you, since you brought it up, i have been around people who knew death was around every corner, and if any people have a right to wallow in their misery it is these people, but; the closer you get to death the more you realize their is little you can do to prevent it. Same goes with bad things. They happen. How you choose to react to them is your decision. In time when you are looking back on everything you have been through, the moments you will tend to remember most are the happy ones, thus "happiness punctuates life". That is what was meant hear, that and hindsight is 20/20. Ask yourself, what is your best memory and is it more about overcoming something or about enjoying something?

Answer 3

I've been around people so disabled they couldn't even do the basics by themselves but they were happy. I've met others who were healthy and hated life. I think life is a bit like a stained glass window. Its the dark parts that set off the beauty and show it for how bright it is. If anything were consistent then we would be bored or take it for granted. Did you watch the last sunset? If it came once a year you'd plan a party and be in awe of such beauty.

Answer 4

I would hold it as true. Too much light (staring into the sun) and you are blinded, too much darkness, you cannot see. We need both. The darkness defines the light and gives form and texture to what we see. Take a sheet of paper. Lay down a line of carbon. You have given form and texture to the two dimensional plane of the paper

The same holds true for happiness and sorrow. We don't understand the emotion of happiness if we do not experience sorrow. Living our lives on a day to day basis is equivalent to laying down the carbon on the time line of our existence.

Our actions and thoughts control our endocrine glands, (well, scientists are on the fence with this one) which in turn sends all sorts of hormones through our bodies giving us the physical feeling of emotions, happiness, sorrow, excitability, calmness, fear. love. loathing. It's the equivalent to the chicken or the egg quandary.

Can't have one without the other.

Answer 5

Well yes those who are highly depressed. They let circumstances get the best of them. I do understand death of loved ones, health issues that take lives etc ect there are so many things that make us unhappy or sad but it is not the situation it is our reaction to the situation. Our lives will never be rid of things that make us feel sorrowful. But rember weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning. We are given a new day to start over new every morning. It is up to us to live life not off of our emotions but the God given knowledge and wisdom.

Answer 6

Every life on this planet experiences pain at least once. Sadness teaches us to value our happiness. However once you have experienced both happiness is a choice you can make. I make it every day. I still experience sadness from time-to-time, but I am happy about 95% of the time. I have said goodbye to bad days long ago. People tend to linger on sadness, anger and self-sabotaging emotions far longer than they need to. For example: a person just makes it to work on time, spills his/her coffee and has to rush for the first hour of work to get caught up. Most people would extrapolate this into the rest of their entire day. Why should you label it a bad day for just having a bad first hour? Why write-off the remaining 23 hours because the first hour was bad? Why not have bad moments and just label them as that. I have mostly all good days, by this very choice.

Happiness punctuates life by choice. You can do this too, try it! How far is it true, that is entirely up to you... how much happiness do you want to choose? There are things in life which justify a bad day the illness or loss of a loved one, getting fired from a job, serious things... most things that we "allow" to create sadness are not justified to create it however. We, as human beings, set habits that "allow" ourselves to expect the worst in things just because of a moment of misery. We should instead, "Expect the best and be prepared for the worst." - annonymous

Choose happiness either way, or if things are really bad - get back to being happy as soon as you can once again choose it.

Answer 7

You can not clearly express what it is you are asking. If happiness punctuates life, do you understand what this means?

It is not supposed to be consistent based on the nature of you defining it as that which punctuates life.

Something can not be "part true" and so asking "How far is it true.?" is not possible. It is true or false and not a percentage of either. It is illogical.

Answer 8

I think that sorrow is consistent in the lives of the people I see that live with war and the violence it brings on an everyday basis. The happiness therefor must be sporadic.

Answer 9

Happiness can be permanate, if you choose it to be when you wake up in the morning and choose if today will be sad or happy. Also you can still be happy but be sad too. You may have a happy life but then someone you love dies, you still have a happy life but with just a pinch of sadness.

Answer 10

Have you ever been asked what you want for your B-day, X-mas, or when you have extra money in your pocket? For that moment when you stop to think what you want or want to buy you cant think of absolutely nothing. Oh if not asked or do not have any $ all of a sudden you just need everything and want to buy everything? Well that is how happiness is...we take it for granted. Happiness is many things--pleasure, joy,cheerfull, willing, satisfaction, well adapted, lucky, glad, peaceful, etc. and we tend to take these things for granted too. I believe we can be consistent if we soul search more often brain search.

Answer 11

Happiness and sadness are just fillers in life. Most of life is simply boring routine. Once in a while happiness crops up, once is a while sadness crops up. Yet most of life is not happiness or sadness it's just the same ho-hum. So yes happiness punctuates life because when it appears we feel the change. Same with sadness.