It's Ok To Be Sad

“It’s OK to be sad...” It’s OK to be sad, for then happiness is given its proper perspective; although it might not seem that way right now, when up feels only a bit less down. Down there is not the best place to be, at least when you’re there; but it gives your feet a place to stand while the hunger pains of sorrow churn you up inside. Look at it this way: come what may, up there beckons and calls, a land of sunlight that you’ll explore in due time, when your tears stop making the steps all slippery. And when you walk again on pastures green, with a warm back and breezy stride, keep a little of the sadness in a box inside just to check on, now and then. It’s a reminder of Will Shakespeare’s sage advice to disengage the gears between the ears (I know it’s hard): Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so.