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IN PRAISE OF SADNESS by Hugh Mackay

-Excerpt from the January 2012 Edition of Readers Digest Canada

Everyone wants to be happy. But the tough times are worthwhile, too.

We seem to have become afraid of sadness. There’s been so much emphasis on happiness, positive thinking and invincible self-esteem; we are in danger of forgetting that an important part of being a complete person is learning to handle the tough stuff as well.

Obviously, positive emotions are more enjoyable, but it’s perfectly normal to be engulfed by waves of grief and stymied by feelings of despair. All those emotions have something to teach us about ourselves, and without them we’d never know what happiness is.

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