Why do we feel sad?

Life is a pathway with many branches.
And in whichever path you choose.
You are bound to meet an emotion called sadness.
This could be spawned from a number of ways.
The loss of someone you care dearly for.
The departure of a friend you may not see again.
Or just simply you not getting what you want out of life.

Inside each and everyone of us is a heart.
Whether our emotions and feelings have anything to do with the heart is still a mystery.
But one thing is for certain.
Whenever we feel sad or hurt.
Our heart sinks.
Its an achy feeling which is indescribable.
Somethings we can only know by ourselves.

Everyone has that feeling at some point in their lives.
Some have it less than others.
While others have it more than others.
Sometimes you might wonder where is the justice to that?
How is it fair that some people hurt more than others?
That is a truth we cannot understand.
Because how everyone one of us describes sadness is different.
What I find sad and hurtful might seem like hell to you.
What you find sad and hurtful could be hell to me
That's what makes us different our individuality.

But at the end of the day.
You do wonder.
Why do we feel sad?
Is it worth to be sad?
Why send our lives into turmoil by ingesting the poison that is sadness.
I guess if we knew how to skip that phase in life.
Life would'nt be life anymore.
Then again maybe that's what makes us human.
All our imperfections and sadness being one of them.

-Jonathan