A Depressing Truth: For Every Happy person there is an Unhappy person

As hard as it is for happy people to believe, for every happy person there is, someone else is upset.

The cold truth is, one can't possibly be happy without someone else being unhappy. In fact one's happiness comes from the fact that the other person did not get a happy result.

Say you got a new digital camera. You are obviously happy you got it. But that means someone else did not get it, and therefore they are not unhappy.

Sure your argument would be "well they could always go to another store", but somebody..someone, out there will not being getting a camera.

Or how about when you get good grades but your friend does not?

The reality is that someone else has to be unhappy for you to be happy. You may not have to see it for yourself, or even know the person (but usually you do).

I like to call this phenomenon forced sacrificing because one is having to sacrifice their happiness for someone else, but its being forced.

A good example of this can be love. When you like a guy, but he goes for someone else, you are sacrificing forcibly your chance to have him. You have no choice but to give up your happiness which means the girl that gets your crush will be happy as will your crush.

The sucky thing about forced sacrificing is obviously that its forced. Essentially every time you are unhappy its out of force and someone else is enjoying the happiness that should belong to you.