Lesson in life?

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" A wise man once sat in an audience and cracked a joke. Everybody laughs like crazy. After a moment, he cracked the same joke again. This time, less people laughed. He cracked the same joke again and again. When there was no laughter in the crowd, he smiled and said:

You can't laugh at the same joke again and again, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over again? "

 

[da_illest101]

Pain and joy are two different things. I find that pain, in general has a longer lasting effect than joy, sadly

 

[Aletheia]

It's sad isn't it?

Red fades before blue.

 

[Kat]

Yep it’s true. If only there was a happiness disorder.

 

[MikeyC]

Pain and joy are two different things. I find that pain, in general has a longer lasting effect than joy, sadly

Yeah, painful memories can affect your life. That's unfortunate but that's how it is.

However, you don't remember the bad times you had on holidays. If you're on holidays for a week and most of it was radical, you're not going to remember the long flight or that one meal you had that gave you a slight stomachache. You'll remember the good times instead.

 

[Kiwong]

Some people can cry until they feel numb and can't cry anymore.

 

[RegalSin]

Stupid people live in the world, and smart people
are left out.

There is no possible way not to have a happy life without accomplishing
nothing.

Humans are not born with sin, you are.

 

[cosmosis]

Well, I believe if you are sad about something long enough, it stops eventually. Just like if you are happy about something, you will stop feeling joy about it eventually. It's the way the mind adapts. The problem with pain when talking about anxiety, is that it cycles over and over so it seems like it never stops. It goes down, stabalizes, goes up (relatively higher) and then goes down again. You just can't truly be sad forever or happy forever about one thing.

 

[takethislife]

Pain is the only sense we have whose intensity doesn't fade after we experience it for a while.

 

[vj288]

I think this story has a point if you compare a level of pain equivalent to the level of enjoyment received after hearing the joke. You hear the joke once, it's really funny, you hear it a few more times and it's a slightly less funny, and eventually it loses it's humor. Maybe if you hear it in a month it may make you laugh again, or maybe not.

Same can go for things you cry over. The first time you hear something sad it may make you really sad. The sadness should lessen over time. It's not talking about depression or a negative outlook on life, it's talking about a specific occurrence. Things get boring, things get old, we get over things. Don't live in the past, that's the only way that initial sadness can continue to effect you, because it is in the past you felt that sadness.