Happiness

"If you aren't unhappy sometimes, you don't know how to be happy."
- A Wrinkle in Time

Sometimes when I'm going through my life and it seems to be going by quite smoothly I start to worry because so many times before I've hit a bump in the road. Sometimes this bump is only little and it just rattles me a bit. Other times It pops my tire and I find myself in a complete mess, stopped on the side of the road because I can't seem to figure out how to put a new tire on.
But eventually this fear of something goes away and I continue being happy. But as soon as I let myself be truly happy someone or something steps in the way and I end up crashing. I'm left with my car broken in a million pieces and I have to drag myself down this road that never seems to end.
Have you ever been driving down the highway and the rain hits your car so hard and fast that you can hardly hear your own thoughts? And then that one song starts to play on the radio that finally breaks the patched together feelings you've been trying so hard to keep together. Unhappiness is like that everytime. It's not even what made you sad or how miserable you are. It's more so just knowing you're life was so good before and then in the blink of an eye someone took that happiness from you.
I know it gets better, I've heard those words more than  thousand times. It will get better, it always does. Being upset, hurt and sad just makes being happy, excited and grateful an even more powerful and fulfilling feeling.