The American psychotherapist and author Eric Maisel expresses a most interesting view of sadness, which he refers to as ‘unhappiness’: Let us be mature and truthful and accept the reality of unhappiness. It is not the coloration of life, but it is certainly one of life’s colors. Moments of unhappiness happen. Days of unhappiness happen. Unhappiness can cloud a year or a decade. This does not make you ‘disordered,’ and it is nothing you should feel embarrassed about.
