The Emotion-Sorrow
Sorrow, the opposite of Joy. What are the things, situations which give you joy ? Logically, does it happen that the opposite of a happy situation, or event, leave you distressed ? For example, one word for your state of mind when you succeed in an examination. Cheerful. One word for not achieving the desired result in the same examination. Dejected. What do we observe here ? As Kahlil Gibran said in his poem ‘On Joy and Sorrow’: “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.” Another excerpt says: “Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” We can infer from these lines that joy and sorrow are explicitly correlated. One cannot exist without the other. When there is joy, enjoy it, because remember that there too exists sorrow. And when there is sorrow, remember that joy too awaits in the pipeline. As I had said for anger, […]