Joy and Sorrow

This is just a little theory that has come to my head over the last few days. I don't know if its as significant as THIS ground breaking discovery, but still.

GENERALLY,
In life, the happiest people are the ones who've been face to face with the deepest forms of sorrow. People who've been pally with the lows, tend to appreciate the highs better, while the others tend to wallow in a sense of complacency flavoured with despondency. You could call it another example of the fundamental law of relative experience (warm hand cold in moderate water, cold hand warm in cold water). Without doubt, it does fit that mould of logic.

To elaborate,
In order to feel TRULY sad, one needs to know the meaning and value of real joy, and vice versa. So even though this implies, by corollary and by the sheer inseparability of the two, that:
"The saddest people are the ones who've been face to face with the deepest forms of joy",
I'd say it's the cost one pays for being alive.
In fact, to even term it as something as taxing as 'cost' would be a misnomer. Experiencing everything in all its glorious entirety is, to my mind, THE basic unit that builds an active life, sprinkled with the magic and wonder that keeps the fountain of youth from drying.
As in, after a point, joy and sorrow (should) lose their disparateness, to the extent that they give to one, nothing more and nothing less, than a sense of previously subliminal bliss; a bliss stemming from the very fact that one has the POWER to FEEL, and that one is blessed/fortunate enough to be in such a position.

So in effect, what I'm saying is, one must marry both sorrow and joy, in order to truly live any one of them. The other comes along for no real cost, except for the temporary phase of potential affliction, following which it becomes as good a partner as the first.

To conclude,
Be happy, be sad, but LIVE each moment of both.
And always remember, every single event is there FOR a reason, and personally, it helps to believe in SOME form of Intelligent Design, even if It is this.

Live, love, believe.

PS: And for the SERIOUSLY cynical in our midst, feed on THIS.

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And talking about life with its joys and sorrows, I can't help but share this little clip from Southpark. Its BEAUTIFUL...
As the video description says: "Southpark trashers, eat your HEART out!"