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The Most Misunderstood Trap Of Life: Sadness As A Comfort Zone
Life sucks, everything is awful and, in all honesty, you just want to be sad.
Happiness seems like a thing that only exists in fairy tales, but even if you could reach it… you don’t want to.
Well, it’s not so much that you do not want to reach it, but more that it would make you uncomfortable to suddenly be happy.
You have been sad for so long, have grown so accustomed to this hole, that anything else would likely just be worse.
‘Being happy’ would fall under that category too.
After all, how can you be happy when you have been sad for so long?
This is not a special situation.
Many people that suffer from depressions, or have been sad for a long time, feel that they do not want to be happy.
They just want to be miserable.
The thing that most of them do not understand is the reason behind their desire to remain unhappy.
We humans are creatures of habit and comfort.
We build our entire lives to create a sort-of balance around who we are, what we have and what we do.
It is this balance of habits that brings us comfort.
