Since childhood, we’ve been taught that sadness is a failure. If you weren’t smiling, you were "broken." If you weren’t laughing, you were "difficult." We were conditioned to believe that being a "good person" meant being a happy one, leaving no room for the quiet, heavy blue of a somber heart. But as we grow, the trap reveals itself. We are told to chase happiness as if it’s a destination, but happiness is a peak and no one can live on a peak forever. When the inevitable descent happens, we don’t just feel sad; we feel like we’ve failed the "happiness test." So, we start to live a double life. By day, we function. We are "mature." We give the necessary smiles and perform the rituals of a productive human. But in the private hours, we develop a strange, secret craving for the very thing we were taught to fear. We become architects of our own heartbreak. We find ourselves drawn to the wanderers people we know, deep down, are not meant t...
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