Let’s explore sadness, I noticed that sadness is a bit addictive, it feels somehow good to feel sad otherwise why would sad music, sad films and sad stories exist, there is a demand for sad content and for sure there is supply as consumer-media or real-world news, and it goes even deeper as one deliberately feels or stays sad, for instance when feeling physical pain we tend to prioritize stopping it, but when sadness is the “pain” we tend to sink into it, instead of pushing it away, why do people listen to sad music when they feel sad if the objective is to stop feeling sad?; music is just an obvious example, another examples might be looking through texts or pictures that cause a sense of sadness. One reason is, we deserve to feel this way, we suffer to show value, like breaking up with significant other causes emotional pain, but we often catch ourselves reminiscing over moments or looking through content that induces sadness, and we feel good about getting sad because it ind...
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