Happiness is a Menace

Our world is one of balance, one which the happy folks tend to forget sometimes and just want everyone to be happy like them, they want everyone to feel optimistic, they, in the process take away the

“Happy people are a menace”, my friend Rachel said and I felt the truth in what she said and I know you know this too to some extent.

Yes, happy people are cool and optimistic and all and they make the world really pleasing to the eye, but when dealing with sad people, they are a menace. Okay, maybe I am laying it thicker than it is in my head, but all I am trying to say is that the world needs sad and pessimistic folks as much as it needs happy folks.

Happy folks become a burden on you; they want to shove their happiness on you without caring how you feel about it. They ask why you’re sad when you can create happiness for yourself, they make you question if you really are so against yourself that you won’t let yourself be happy.

Our world is one of balance, one which the happy folks tend to forget sometimes and just want everyone to be happy like them, they want everyone to feel optimistic, and they, in the process take away the importance of pessimism.

Someone once told me that “you can’t take away all the bad in the world and let the world run on good only, because sometimes bad saves the good when there’s a bind”, I didn’t really understand it immediately, but my mind painted a picture of the yin-yang symbol and somehow it just made sense.

If the world was filled with happy folks and optimists only, who would think of brake pedals when you could be optimistic about not falling, who would think of seatbelts when you could be flailing happily on a rollercoaster? Do you get it yet?

So yes, happy people are a menace, but they’re also cool and we need them just as much as they need us, we just don’t always want them trying to change us. They’re a menace but, they’re our menace.