The Five Different Emotions Behind The Mask Of Happiness

Happiness does not arise from hiding other feelings away, especially negativity and sadness. If one might pretend to be the happiest person on the planet when really they are down inside, can be more hurtful than helpful to themselves. Hiding other feelings behind the mask of happiness could only make situations worse for a person. Riley from Inside Out experienced what it was like to have only five different emotions working separately, rather than working together. Joy was always busy making sure Sadness was excluded from anything that happened, only to realize how much she needs Sadness by her side, and that melancholy is not such a bad thing. Although melancholy might not come to everyone, when it does, it is not necessarily because something …show more content…
“I think the logic goes something like this: If we don 't expect greatness, if we don 't expect to find love and be healthy and successful, well we 're not going to be disappointed when these things don 't happen. And if we 're not disappointed when good things don 't happen, and we 're pleasantly surprised when they do, we will be happy” (Sharot, Tali). People are more likely to be happier when they are surprised about something good happening to them. If they display a positive happy attitude towards everything, they would not feel the joy of something truly amazing happening. Happiness needs to be shouldered by sadness, because if it were not, nothing exciting would ever …show more content…
To have bad experiences that either turned out well or not so well makes a person much more interesting, especially when they are around to tell the story. To be “happy” is to satisfy the things that are needed in everyday life, such as money, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that people are happy personally. Almost every situation will have a negative flaw in it, only some will pay more attention to them than others. “Doing things to express oneself and caring about personal and cultural identity were linked to a meaningful life but not a happy one. For example, considering oneself to be wise or creative was associated with meaning but not happiness” (Marsh). Happiness doesn’t reveal itself when the best of things happen, or with the values and traits of a person. It can, however, be expressed through the worst of times, such as surviving and living past events that could be critical to your life. During the critical moments, there was probably plenty of negative thoughts and ideas that were pleasantly shrugged off with happiness because they never went into full action.