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The world has created a false statement “That may be the most damaging legacy of the happiness industry: the message that all sadness is a disease” (Begley 457). People fail to realize that happiness does not mean one is happy, “It’s yet another coping mechanism for discomfort with “negative” emotions” (David 126). Sadly, scientists are spending years on research to find different ways to make people happier but were unsuccessful to note that everyone does not have the same cause of happiness. To mature in life people have to understand why they cry, scream, and fight to become happy, and that the negative emotions that people dread will cause the happiness that one seeks. People also need to understand that the acknowledgment of sadness, anger, and fear does not mean to bash happiness, the acknowledgment is so one can embrace their emotions and not bottle them up and hide their healthy emotions from the