Sadness And Negative Emotions

The world defines sadness, anger, and fear as negative emotions, however the definition of “negative” is to have a wicked or evil character. The worldviews sadness, anger, and fear as negative emotions but do not have the evidence to support this statement. These emotions have collected this title because the world fears discomfort and “describing them as “negative” only perpetuates the myth that these useful feelings are, you know, negative” (David 124). The myth of the emotions is so beloved that generation after generation have been taught to dread the feeling of sadness, anger, and fear and to seek for happiness for a result of growth instead of experiencing the process of the emotions the world was given. While people believe that finding happiness can result in growth, they fail to acknowledge that negative emotions contribute to people’s mental and physical growth too.
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The world has created a false statement “That may be the most damaging legacy of the happiness industry: the message that all sadness is a disease” (Begley 457). People fail to realize that happiness does not mean one is happy, “It’s yet another coping mechanism for discomfort with “negative” emotions” (David 126). Sadly, scientists are spending years on research to find different ways to make people happier but were unsuccessful to note that everyone does not have the same cause of happiness. To mature in life people have to understand why they cry, scream, and fight to become happy, and that the negative emotions that people dread will cause the happiness that one seeks. People also need to understand that the acknowledgment of sadness, anger, and fear does not mean to bash happiness, the acknowledgment is so one can embrace their emotions and not bottle them up and hide their healthy emotions from the