Do you sometimes experience a dichotomy of happiness and sadness?

[loves2learn]

October 15th is miscarriage awareness day. It had been a hard day for me for the past 7 years. It also happens to be my grandmother’s birthday. She is turning 100! What a milestone! I am so happy to be able to celebrate with her tomorrow. But the sadness is still there…

[Charliefretz329]

That is just the way life works. Endeavor to enjoy each day for what it is. We only ever live in the very current moment that is the “right here and now”. Enjoy it fully.


Interesting to state this while I’m browsing GAG in the toilet… 🤔 lmmfao 🤣

[Charliefretz329]

Happy birthday Grandma!!! 😊

[Charliefretz329]

And you would never know the extent of happiness in the good times the same; if you did not know the extent of the pain and sadness in the bad times. I believe this is a truth that cannot be argued

[loves2learn]

😂😍🤣🥰😂❤️

[NightOwl8801]

We lost one early in the pregnancy last year and had a failed implantation last month 😢
Yeah sometimes it hits like a punch to the gut

[exitseven]

It is awesome that your grandmother is still a part of your life. Think of what has happened in the last 100 years. The wars, the depression, social changes. Think about how different our world is now. The great advances in technology and medicine. Things that were unimaginable a hundred years ago are commonplace today. The world is a better place even though sometimes it does not seem that way. We have a lot less poverty and suffering.
I am sorry her birthday is also on Miscarriage Awareness day. Try to think of the future and be optimistic.

[loves2learn]

I love talking to my grandmother @exitseven. She was one of my biggest breastfeeding cheerleaders. She would ask me how long I fed my oldest and I would tell her I still was and she would tell me how wonderful. 🥰

[exitseven]

That is awesome. All my relatives from that generation are gone. My father's younger brother died over the summer. I still have questions that will never be answered.

[CrazyGirl2]

It can happen to us all at one point or another! After what happened to me, I would find myself feeling guilty if I suddenly realized that I was happy! It’s okay to be happy when something happens in your life… in fact, it’s perfectly normal for conflicting feelings to creep up and surprise you! Just enjoy the happiness, it’s very therapeutic & healing to feel happy!

[loves2learn]

Sooo very true. It is a-ok for you to be happy my dear!

[CrazyGirl2]

Yes sweetie, and it’s a-ok for you to feel happy too!

[NathanDavis]

Not just sometimes... that was pretty much the first 16 years of my life... that's what depression was for me. It did get much better since, and the darkest sides have been quite dormant for a long long while... but I still see, live and approach life as such, as some sort of dichotomy

[Nightroads]

Of course. More so then usual, due to recent event.

[loves2learn]

I get that. I am here if you need to vent or talk. 💛

[t-8900]

Coming off a medication for depression atm. My emotions are all over the place right now but doc says in about 50 days I'll be all better...

[Andres77]

Redirecting toward hope... rerouting... rerouting...
If I dwell on the down I can't move forward.
I don't have time to grieve. Too much is resting on my shoulders.
I get it...

[bowenw]

Yes sometimes. There are so many different things going on in our lives. Some make us sad while others made us happy.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Aww, how sweet !!! Happy Birthday, Grandma 100 !!! We love you 👼🙏

[loveslongnails]

Doesn't everyone, unless they're a simpleton?

[loves2learn]

Lmao! “Simpleton?” 🤣🤣🤣

[KostasKouvalis]

I have no clue what that is

[loves2learn]

What what is? Lol!

[KostasKouvalis]

That D word

[loves2learn]

di·chot·o·my
/dīˈkädəmē/

a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.
"a rigid dichotomy between science and mysticism"

[Red_Arrow]

Dichotomy - "a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.
"a rigid dichotomy between science and mysticism""

[loves2learn]

@Red_Arrow jinx. You owe me a coke.

[Red_Arrow]

coke? Or tea? There is a dichotomy there.

[loves2learn]

Coke zero please and ty 😇

[DaveToo]

My heart is with you. <3

[Gwenhwyfar]

Yeah

[msc545]

occasionally.