sadness is addictive ?

 

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 indicates value? As if we need to prove it. there are many instances for this case but things get very sensitive and I will sound heavily nihilistic so we will stop here.

Another reason to like or at least not repent sadness as we repent pain is all the care and attention we get from others and the emancipation of responsibilities toward others, self and future self; of course, it’s only temporary and it is heavily influenced by the capabilities of people around us.  

Another reason I can think of before I lose the ability to write is the diminishment of conciseness, as in the reduction of the world in the sad person’s mind, (that can be implied for physical pain too), the whole world with all its chaos and uncertainty is reduced to the cause of sadness, and this state is very appealing for the mind, for its no longer required to contemplate the unknown, temporarily of course.