[The Cloud]

Bonus points for Angela and Jarrod. At least I was beaten by the best.

I didn't mean that you have to sit and be depressed and miserable when you feel those emotions. You don't have to be what you feel. It merely points where the perspective you are using breaks down and doesn't work. Bad feelings tell us that we're looking at things from a perspective that blatantly contradicts reality. That may be why mania is so dangerous: even though the person can be extremely happy throughout the whole thing, they do stupid irresponsible things because their emotional checks and balances are messed up. They can't tell the difference between a realistic goal and a flight of fancy, because both feel good.

Also, I've had some semantic issues lately. Sometimes when I say happy, I mean the kind of happy like "Yay I'm going to Disney World!" Other times, I mean the state of bliss where you are a part of everything and resisting nothing. They aren't the same thing. If a close relative dies, you're not going to be Disney World happy. However, you can still be "happy" in the sense that you accept what has happened and don't fight it.