the wave theory of life

woohoo! two posts in one day. i'm on a roll here!

due to a cup of coffee, free wifi access, an uncured case of insomnia and a couple of stupid ideas running through my head, i have unearthed another stupid theory of life that has been sleeping inside my brain for a couple of years already. it all started with a simple phrase that popped up and never left my mind, "sometimes you just have to cry."

no, i wasn't trying to be melodramatic or dramatic at all. it just happened to pass by my brain before going to lala land or whatever land thoughts go to after they expire. being the bored techie that i am, i googled the phrase-that-never-left-my-mind and found a pdf about some humorist's speech. it gave further proof about my wave theory of life.

the wave theory of life declares that:
in life, one must experience happiness in the same intensity and length as sadness.

corollary: intensity and length of time are inversely proportional to one another.

you cannot be happy for an extremely long time and you cannot be sad for an extremely long time too.. you know why? extreme laughter and depression can cause death. if you experience sadness for a long time, it's not as intensified as you experienced it briefly. we are all human, we become numb to emotions after some time.

i do not mean we have to remain stoic and boring all the time to evade sadness, but isn't a roller coaster of emotions what makes us human? we feel, ergo we're human. the wave practicality of life justifies the existence of drugs and anti-depressants, we want to experience everything even through synthetic unnatural ways.

corollary: threshold values for happiness and sadness is unique for every person. happiness threshold value may not be equal to sadness threshold value.

it's like your alcohol limit, we all have our own capacities. some people can take in too much pain (martyrs), some people can't (suicidals) but we all have the ability to withstand sadness like how we have the ability to enjoy happiness.

it's a simple yin yang. a balance of some sort. we live. we laugh. we cry. it's what makes us human after all.

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