If it is, Why is it so? Perhaps, it is our mind that tells us after a string of joyous moments, another string of despairs is bound to follow. We start to believe, as gained from our experiences, perpetual happiness can't be acheived.
I happens so often, that we are afraid to have a hearty laugh, fearing we would need to cry our hearts out for one or the other reason. Does happiness proscribes celebration? It doesn't , but there are moments when we feel it does.
I have a friend, who used to remind me everytime, i shared a joke, "Please don't make me laugh so much. I have to bear an equal amount of pain later"
So many of us, have this congenital and inveterate belief that life comprises of equal shares of bundles of joys and sorrows. So according to the theory, if you have 100kg bundle of Joys and Sorrows, kindly preserve your joys for the moments of need, usually in your later life.
So, is it easy to dichotomize things into - joy and sorrow? Probably not!
If a flood victim is given chapati and onion to eat, its a joy for him. But try offering the same to a "born with a silver spoon"!
Referring to a same person, also may confuse us further. We may think an event to be a boon one day and a bane the next day.
Finally it all comes down to relative happiness/sorrow.
So, if the definations of joys/sorrows are relative, isn't it incongruous to believe the equal share of each?
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