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Oct 3, 2012
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears."
—Kahlil Gibran
In Praise of Melancholy
"Eighty-four percent of Americans claim to be happy, a statistic that Wake Forest University English professor Eric G. Wilson finds "strange at best, troubling at worst." With a litany of self-help books, pills and plastic surgery to feed an addiction to happiness, he says, "It's now easier than ever before to live a trouble-free life, to smooth out the rough edges, to hide the darkness." In his recent book Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Wilson --a non-recovering melancholic by choice --praises sorrow as the muse of many writers and songwriters, warning that to rid life of it is to rid life of a vital source of creativity."
BE THE CHANGE
Instead of pushing it away, experiment with embracing natural sadness as it arises in your own life.
