mental health

In this unit we talked about many things dealling with mental health. The thing that stuck with me the most was the idea that mabye we dont have to be happy 24/7 to be healthy. In todays society we dont talk about emotions that much, becuase of this we assume that the only good emotion is happyness and that we need to do what ever we can to reach happyness. Even after a tramatic expirence we are told that we need to move on asap. But mabye moving on is not the best option. muarry cried everytime he thought about his mom who died when he was very younge. I now think it is much more healthy to have other emotions besides happyness. In fact it is now my idea that to have a meaningfull life you cant always be happy. when your always happy there is never anything wronge. So to be always happy in this world is to lie to your self. a man wins the lottery and gains 1,000,000,000.86 dollars. he buys a nice house, afew cars, and a puppy and then continues to live his life in bliss. The buddhist beleive that no matter how many materail possesions you have suffering will always come. so to live your life in total happyness means that there are parts of the world you must be blocking out, that might be the death of a loved one or the opressive racist government we have. the blocking out of reality so you can live in bliss is not a meaningful life. to have a meaningful life you must accept everything and let the emotions healthyfull come and go. if your friend dies you should feel grief and let the feeling leave naturally. feeling justified emotions at the right time is part of having a meaningful life.