Why do happy memories make you sad?

Question

Sad memories make you sad, embarrassing memories make you feel embarrassed all over again, but why do happy memories make you sad? And how can you make it so happy memories only make you happy?

Answer 1

For me when the memories are gone I wish I could have those moments again or experience that feeling one more time so that is why mixed with those happy memories there is some sadness. I remember so many times I shared with my father, and now that he's gone. They are still happy memories, but also sad cause I won't have any more memories like that with him, and those times were for special for me.

Answer 2

You know how when something makes you really happy, you cry? Have you ever cried out of happiness? Lots of people do, and this sounds similar.

Or maybe happy memories make you sad because you miss those times. But there are plenty more happy memories to be made!

Answer 3

You can be happy by creating new happy memories... If you are looking back at the old happy memories and feel sad, it is because you miss those times. Be happy now. Think about what would make you happy and do that, within reason.

Answer 4

I understand how you feel. Fourteen years ago, before I moved to Tx. I had a wonderful happy life in Pgh. Pa, in a house on a dead end street with beautiful woods behind us where I raised my 3 children, and my husband and I had a wonderful relationship, and I had 2 German Shepherds, and we had about 6 wonderful years there that I will never forget. They were probably the best years of my life. Then we moved, and things changed, and was never that way again. I always remember when we lived there and had great memories, and my parents were living back then and would come on Holidays, and we would have the best cook outs ever. When I think back to those special days, I feel like crying, and I actually visited that house again last summer when I went up to visit a friend, and when I walked in the empty house, that was being painted, I started to cry, thinking of what I once had, and now it will never be that way again. I try to be happy now, but I will never see that kind of happiness again. That makes me sad. Now my youngest daughter which is in her early twenties, wants to move back up there again which is great, but its just never going to be the same as a family again.

Answer 5

For me, happy memories make me sad, because I miss that moment in time..and its something you can't experience again except through memories....but....thats not real...

if that makes any sense?

Answer 6

maybe its possible that if u think of something that was happy, u'll get sad because that happy time was over, and u enjoyed it a lot...for example..if u had a fun party, and a couple days later u think of how happy u were, u may be sad cuz ur party is over and it wont come again 4 a while..
just a suggestion

Answer 7

Happy memories don't make me sad. They may cause me to feel sentimental, or nostalgic for days gone by....but they don't create feelings of sadness, for me at least.

Answer 8

Because they are gone, never to return. This world is Maya or illusion and if one lives their life in memories they will constantly be in illusion. We need to get out of this world of repeated birth death old age and disease. It is all an illusion. See the movie the Trueman show on DVD to get a good idea of how the material world is an illusion. If you would like real happiness then one must understand who you truly are (beyond this physical body and mind) and know your true purpose in life. go to stephen-knap.c for the process of getting out of illusion.

Answer 9

you evidently went deep for that one.personal stuff is always less than our expectations cause, we have been predicted to supply our own lives with findings good jobs lots of insurances good cars what ever we need were supposed to pull it like a rabbit out of our hats and not c the each community is the recipient of the return of power to state and local government, in this structure where is there time to have fun and live normal, try to set a path of behavioral science books in one pile and dig for their intentions so you are prepared for what is piling up out side the door waiting for you next, most of us live with a town over loaded with back door referendums to break the back of life at any level and it is in this sense that conformity is at it deadliest in a no win situation only our ability to marry some guy with big bucks can pad your way to safety it is apocolyptically here and smile cause you know that you might as well be happy cause it won't make any difference to them but it might too you

Answer 10

well the reason i believe that happy memeories makes you said is because it reminds you of how much fun you had and how happy you was then you wish you could go back and experience it again, but knowing you cannot it makes you said. That's my opinion..... Can you check my question please thank you....