Life is not always a bed of roses. It is an amalgam of moments of happiness and sadness. One should not expect their life to be a happy 24x7. No matter how many efforts we might make to make our life a-forever-happy one, we will all always fail. Every kind of resource including money will fail to achieve such goal.
How one gains happiness and what makes them sad is different for different people at different times of their life. Maybe a person to take care of us and to play with us will do when we are an infant but as we grow up, the need for friends becomes inevitable for our happiness. We might seek happiness from our lover when we are a teenager, job satisfaction and a proper relationship with our partner when we are adult and the love of our children as we grow older.
A child cries when he/she knows that no one is around them, a young boy may feel bad when his friends don't believe what he says, a teenager might spend sleepless nights when his/her lover no longer talks to him/her and a man when his child is sick. For us, there aren't really big things that make us happy or sad. It's just the little things. If you analyze over a day, the factors that makes you happy or sad, you'll find that the power of these small factors is ridiculously very powerful.
Many people lead a poor life just because they cannot handle these kinds of moments of sadness. These people end up in really bad situations. You might have seen those kinds of people or yourself have been one of those who are too stressed out even with seemingly solvable problems, instead of working out about dealing with the situation, they let their emotion in which seizes their power to think and act rationally. Later, they pay the price for their (habitual) foolishness.
When one really has a bad time with their parents, they have to know that this is just a little thing that doesn't matter much. They should know how much their parents actually love them. So many children act blindly in the heat of the moment and regret their actions later. It's just a phase that one is going through and it will pass. Good times will come.
Life is for doers and not for losers. We should know that the moments of sadness doesn't count so much in our life and we have to really appreciate the good times in our life and celebrate them. Even when we are at the lowest possible time of our life, we have to know that good time will come. We have to live in the pursuit of those moments just like a sparrow shivering in the cold dreams about the summer and the good times it is going to have. Life is lived by hopes and expectations. Those who can't see dreams and those who don't have hope have a hard time surviving.
