Im happy but there is a heavy feeling of sadness in my heart that I just can't remove. Why am I like this?

In the absence of a should, I was free to be as I am.

But unlike before, there is no more resistance to the sadness.

But no matter what I read or practiced, I could never make the sadness budge for longer than a few fleeting moments - and even then, it was likely due to me being distracted from the sensation of sadness rather than anything actually shifting.

What are the reasons for your political affiliation with the Democratic party? What are some aspects of the party that you support and some that you do not?

It’s here now, writing to you.

So if you are sad - like me - then be sad.

Be who you already are.

You guys are talking about having sex with dogs. I heard a news man was trying to have sex with a female dog and got stuck inside. Is that possible? How does it feel inside a dog’s vagina?

So I finally threw my hands up and said something to the tune of “fuck it, since I can't seem to change, I’ll just be whatever I am then.”

Needless to say, my failed attempts to fix my sadness simply brought me more pain and suffering.

Most people that know me would probably describe me as a social, happy, and somewhat quirky person with a twisted sense of humor.

Why is Hinduism not polytheistic?

Now, this may sound like a story of failure and giving up, but it’s actually a story of liberation.

You are like me, then.

I had run out of hope.

Can you write a letter to your first love without mentioning his/her name?

Your job is not to be the manager of your life, but the one who discovers yourself fully.

Without resistance, sadness has a sense of beauty and depth I cannot find otherwise in life.

It’s still here.

Why am I not attracted to masculine men? Why do I like more feminine attributes on a man?

I was tired of fighting.

This interpretation lead me on a path of self improvement, to fix what I considered to be “wrong” with myself.

I was tired of trying and failing.

What is the reason for the high rate of unmarried individuals in America, particularly among males?

For much of my adult life, I interpreted this sadness as something being wrong - with either myself or my life in general.

What I am trying to say is that when you stop trying to change yourself into something you are not, you give yourself the gift of discovering yourself as you already are.

It’s the most beautiful and liberating thing in the world.

What are your political and economic beliefs? How did you form them, especially in comparison to those who hold opposing views?

It’s impossible to overstate the freedom and peace I discovered, and I realized the only one who had been keeping those from me was… me and my imagined standards and expectations for how I had imagined I should be.

It wasn’t until about 10 years ago that I finally fell out of that ferris wheel of trying and failing to fix myself.

And the sadness?

How do I deal with autistic burnout/meltdown/shutdown when cooking?

What most people don’t know unless they’ve looked more closely is that there is also an element of deep, profound sadness that has always been with me since as long as I can remember.

It’s difficult to put into words exactly what caused what, but to the best of my ability to describe it, I felt as if my will to keep fighting was beaten right out of me.

You are the masterpiece you came here to discover.

What are "demonic attacks" and how can one tell when they're happening to them, or someone else? How would one go about dealing with it?

When I stopped trying to force myself to be something I am not, I gave myself the freedom of being who I am.

The sadness was still there.