Why is happiness short lived?

Question:You have to have happiness and saddness because there would be no way to tell if you were happy if you were never sad.
You have to experience both to tell the difference.
How would you know if you were happy if saddness did not exist?
Same with being good or bad. How would a person know if they were being good if they did not have to bad to show the difference.
We have to experience both emotions to be able to tell what we feel at all.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: You have to have happiness and saddness because there would be no way to tell if you were happy if you were never sad.
You have to experience both to tell the difference.
How would you know if you were happy if saddness did not exist?
Same with being good or bad. How would a person know if they were being good if they did not have to bad to show the difference.
We have to experience both emotions to be able to tell what we feel at all.

Someone once told me, "Wouldn't it be exhausting to be happy ALL the time?"

It would. It is enough to be content. Keep in mind as well that in keeping the balance there needs to be strife as well as happiness, and a fair amount of the "in between".

Mortal pleasures come and go. Only Divine pleasures last forever.

it isn't

Because you always want what you can't or don't have. Once you get what you desire, you lose appreciation for it and it doesn't make you as happy as you thought it would and so you move on to the next desire.

It is not the case. Happiness is not the thing to get but to give. When you give it to others it comes back to you in a multiple way. It is within you. As you give more you receive more.

it doesn't have to be short lived

We wouldn't appreciate it as much if it were a constant.

It doesn't have to be but that is completely up to you.

not necessarily...........it lasts as long as we want to have it in life...............it is short lived only when we decide to burry ourselves in sorrow and distress............till then no one can kill our happiness