Why people like only good feelings such as love or happiness?why cann't we take pleasure of sadness?

Question

Maybe it's time to understand that to feel smth mean to live......and sad feelings can give us even bigger sensation of life that good ones.................

Answer 1

I like how you put it.

Specifically that you don't value "happiness" over sadness.
I don't know about pleasure in either case.. it is a difficult idea, not that happiness and sadness are so distinct. But there is something, at least to me, about facing what's at hand. Even if it is horrible -- and possibly Especially because it is so. Running away from sadness, grief over a loved one, tragedy, disapointment, absurdity is to put up walls around our humanity.

If a child runs out into the street, you must holler, be anxious and run, be attentive to your frustration! And it is the same with all such sad, meloncholy things. Repressing or burying the fact that you are sad will only bring you to facetious levels of understanding.

Answer 2

There was a study made. One control group viewed a funny tears of laughter movie. It was so funny; they cried. Another group saw a very sad tears of compassion movie . Both tears from these two groups were collected and studied. The happy tears contain mostly brine and saltwater and nothing else. The sad tears contain the very same chemicals and enymes found in tumors, necrosis, and other such things found in lumps and bumps and sicknesses thru out the body.So if you hold back tears they go somewhere else in the body and cause havoc.
So it's no wonder it stings or burn your eyes when you hold back tears. So tears of sadness and depression can be good. Makes one more compassionate and sympathetic or emphatetic.

Answer 3

You can't take pleasure from sadness, or it wouldn't be called sadness. Sadness, loneliness, anger are just labels put out there to describe emotions. You can learn from sadness, heartbreak, loneliness, dispair....etc. Some of those negative feelings are there for our own good. For example, if you are lonely, you will seek out a mate or friend. If you are sad, you will learn to put yourselves into a happier state (hopefully). If you have felt sad or lonely, you will have compassion for others that are sad or lonely...so in a sense, sad times can lead to a better life, if you use the experience in a positive way.

Answer 4

people like good feelings because they enjoy it, some people are freaks and like pain, they actually find more pleasure in pain. on the other hand the bright side usually calls your inner emotions to bring you to happines to fully enjoy what happines is. If there was no sadness, we wouldnt even know what happiness is.

Answer 5

Sadness, by nature, is negative. However, some people can find joy (not happiness) in all parts of life.

Answer 6

My experience is that everything is bliss. But the desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what pain is.—Nisargadatta Maharaj

Answer 7

Well, if it something you find enjoyable or pleasurable, then by definition that's what it is: it isn't sadness. By taking 'pleausure' in sadness makes it happiness and therefore, it is not sadness to you.

Answer 8

Its chemically proven that feelings of enlightenment actually stimulate the same endorphins as having sex or eating to much chocolate, so the body craves that feeling constantly!

Answer 9

i agree with you alina... but ignorance and optomism must rule or we would be to smart and live on and on

Answer 10

Out of curiosity, you're not a masochist, are you?