Do You Ever Feel Sad?

Sometimes I am happy, sometimes I am not.

The majority of the time I feel like I am trying to avoid sadness (or other negative emotions for that matter). I know for a while one of my main goals in life is to be happy, and I thought that by avoiding negative emotions I would be better able to achieve my goal, but now I am thinking that I may have been wrong.

What if I got hurt? What if I lost something? What if I went through a painful experience. Don't those justify feeling sadness and pain? I think my desire to avoid these "down" periods has dampened my ability to feel happiness and joy. Through self investigation I discovered that I had repressed some feelings that I think I really needed to experience.

Now I am trying to allow myself to feel however I may feel without judgment. Obviously I don't want to be sad and depressed all of the time but most importantly I don't want to try and control my feelings. I think that in the long run this will be more productive for my health and well being and will probably lead to increased happiness.

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