Being unhappy is the first step to becoming happy. 


Unhappiness is a type of human emotion. Just like all other emotions, it is not always a bad thing if it’s only a temporary or transitional state. What is bad is prolonging the changes that need to be made which results a permanent state. In fact, being unhappy is your first step to happiness. It is the ultimate driver to get out of your current state of being to achieve more desired results. It’s unrealistic to be happy all the time because if you care about yourself you'd want to change for the better. Sometimes change might not feel like a pleasant experience at the moment. 

If you are constantly trying to improve yourself these emotions of happiness and unhappiness can be a continuous cycle until you reach mastery. You are unhappy because you detect something that is not going right. You might not know exactly what and how to fix it yet but you are consciously and unconsciously trying to make it better. The more self-aware you become the more “flaws” you will notice about yourself. Just because you notice more of your flaws it doesn’t mean you have more issues. It just means you are more aware of them. At some point there will be more happy moments than unhappy moments because there will be less problems to work on. Oftentimes people are unhappy about their unhappiness, but once you understand this emotional cycle you will actually be happier because you begin to accept the unhappiness as part of the process of becoming happy.

​- Feelasoulphy