What's the point of being unhappy if there are a million people worse off than you every moment?

Answer 1

There are also a million people better off than you. What is the point in any human emotion? I believe that they are all wonderful to experience, enjoy them all, and try to keep a bit of balance.

Answer 2

not everything in the life have point.
i thing that it is in human nature to be unhappy. we all dream about better things that we may or may not have. so we are all longing to be better which leads to a feeling called sadness or desperate. and you know what there may be million people worse than us but also there are million people better then us. that is why people may be unhappy for.
like i said some things just simply dont have any poin. they are just...what they are were and will be POINTLESS !!

Answer 3

Someone can live life with a positive attitude, already reminding himself of how fortunate he is and how there are so many others with such awful situations.

There is a point, though where life can either be so awful and so constantly "knocking someone down", that this person is no longer able to just manage the unhappiness with a good mental attitude. This same person can continue to tell himself how he should remember how much worse things could be, but there's a point where too much sadness or loss starts to govern a person's "brain chemicals" and it becomes far more difficult to overcome a mood that is influenced by "chemicals" every bit as much as a mood can be influenced by drinking alcohol.

If a person has his legs broken he isn't going to be able to run, no matter how good a mental attitude he has. This is the same kind of thing - only it doesn't show and doesn't get much understanding because it can be an invisible problem.

People who know that the reason for their unhappiness (and know it is the result of a bunch of bad things going on in their life) may not want to take antidepressants because they may know they aren't the ones who have some mysterious chemical imbalance and that the unhappiness is an external situation that will eventually pass (either by changing or through adjusting).
There may even be the concern that tampering with one's chemicals when Nature has given us chemicals that depress our sadness or loss could be dangerous in one way or another.

Nature has given us a response to severe sadness or loss that numbs what we feel and tones down any ability to feel anger or grief in the degree that we'd otherwise have it.

The person with the broken legs can't run, and the person with brain chemicals in response to too much stress, loss or sadness cannot feel happiness - no matter if he is aware, on an intellectual level, of how worse others in the world may have things.

The person with the broken legs can say, "Run, legs" and that isn't likely to happen. The person with severe unhappiness can say, "Change mood. Things could be so much worse." - but that isn't likely to happen either. Getting to be in a better frame of mind or mood isn't a simple and quick thing to do. Its a process, and the person needs time to get through that process.

Finally, when something (or many things) happen to someone that amounts to loss, chronic unhappiness, or even severe grief and horror; they don't treat life as if its a competition and because someone (or many other people) get more misery points than they should the only people allowed to be unhappy are the "winners" with the most points....

Because someone else has an easier life than ours it doesn't make ours any more or less difficult, and because others have a harder life than we it doesn't makes our more or less difficult. We, humans of the world, don't have some big collective misery pie with each person having his slice of one size or another. We are all just one person with one life and one set of emotions and brain chemicals that respond to what we go through.

It isn't a bad thing to remind ourselves of the ways in which we are very fortunate and to not forget that there are other people to feel sad for or try to help. Not understanding the person who can't, however, be happy in spite of the nice little thought of all the ways in which he's fortunate is just as unfair as not understanding the person with the broken legs who can't win a marathon.

Answer 4

So you are saying that if someone close to you dies, don't be sad, someone else in the world is worse off then you are? Unhappiness comes with life. You cant go around smiling and hiding the pain when you kick your toe really bad just because you know someone else is worse off then you are? Seriously, no one is completely happy all of the time.

Answer 5

No point to being unhappy it's your life not a million other people's.

Answer 6

You're right what is the point in being unhappy all the time.You have to remember some people have it worse off than you.

Answer 7

Agreed! For that matter a million better off. Do what you can, when you can and your there. Beautiful Cat, it's the way!

Answer 8

that is a good ? but on the other hand how can you know happiness if you were never unhappy?

Answer 9

Good question. I think the whole country needs to hear that message. You have a good point. Humans are never satisfied (even if they think they are). We always want something more.

Answer 10

EXACTLY!!! You've got it. Why be miserable and unhappy. You have lots going for you...so many people don't.