Path to happiness is through suffering, and it is not linear
You missed this fundamental insight to life. You need to suffer a lot to experience even a glimmer of happiness and it is not as straightforward as experiencing the lows to know what the high feels like, because it is not even connected. You suffer because you have to and you may achieve happiness out of it, but it is not the opposite feeling of the suffering you have endured. Take a child. There is a lot of suffering in raising one. Human babies unlike animals don’t start walking the moment they are born. They take a full year to do that, and so much more to develop other aspects of their life. Until then you have to take care of them. If you don’t they would die, as simple as that. And the only reason they are in this world is because of you. You have to take responsibility for that. Suck it up, put your head down, give up all those things you loved, and take care of them. One rare day you child might give you a kiss that would make you feel so happy. But you aren’t taking care of ...