The 2 concepts are opposite though complimentary. As strange as it can be, there would not be happiness without sadness or misery.
Life is a question of balance, nature is a question of balance, and as part of this universe we need to conform to those most elementary rules.
Take the example of magnets. Their need to be a polarity for that physical property to exist. The same apply to many concepts in life.
It doesn't have to be physical properties, but there must be a balance.
When people think: "Ah it would be so cool if everybody was equal". It would not work! There need to be some motion, man cannot stand stillness.
(At least in their whole lifetime)Usually after a certain age people are eager to stabilize, but before they would feel the need to move,
In any directions, but to move. It is like silence. Some people think that silence is death, in the same way stillness is death.
The thing is that it is becoming truer and truer. With manual labors, you could hone your skill till you were the best.
There was a physical limit to the speed you could move. With our mind-oriented society, the boundaries are expanded a lot!
For example, our eyes usually read at a speed of 300 words per minute, but our brain can read/understand more than 30000 words per minute!
The brain is so powerful that a person who really wants to succeed will basically have to learn everyday to reach a sufficient level of knowledge.
Most people thing that because they are not more in schools they don't have to learn anymore. That is a very big mistake! You will never succeed if you think like that. You will stay average and have an average life. Happiness also comes from satisfaction, achievements. If you stay 40 years in the same company doing the same job, you won't get that feeling, and in that situation reaching a happy state will be harder. You will simply be bored, and basically wait for your death. A friend of mine used this sentence to describe this situation.
"People walk carefully to their death"
Finally we have that polarity between people: leaders, people who want to succeed, who will work to it and followers, people who don't want to take decision and live an average peaceful life.
Ask all those achievers how they feel? Few will tell you they want to commit suicide!
On the other hand ask an average guy what he thinks about his life. Many will tell you they have so many things left to do, and will probably never be able to do them!
As a last word, I would say: Stay in motion it is far easier to move when you are already moving! Motion will bring achievements, and achievements will bring happiness!
Man cannot stay in a positive state forever. This would become his normal state, and wouldn't feel happy anymore.
You have 2 options. Either you move forward, and search greater happiness to enhance your general level, or you move backward, or totally fall.Falling is far faster that going backward. It can kill you, or it can re-create that feeling, that need of accomplishment starting in a difficult context. Life is a game; better know the rules to enjoy your life at maximum!
