Basic emotions.

Do you ever use the word 'depressing' instead of 'sad', purely because you don't want to appear repetitive? I did. I guess i still do, as I only made my discovery just now.

The difference between being depressed and sad is a big one.

Depressed: when you feel like everything is crushing you, and the world is crumbling down around you. Basically, it involves you and your problems. It changes the way everything is and can be disastrous.

Sad: a fragile emotion that is usually invoked by something tear-jerking; a movie or a book etc. It's a beautiful feeling that you have to grasp onto fully for it to take a hold of your heart.

I've always thought I've been susceptible to negative emotions, but it turns out it's just depression. I don't get sad a lot. I just watched an extremely sad Johnlock video, and it made me want to cry (I don't cry often, so this is big). The music didn't have the specific notes or lyrics in it to make me feel low, and everything about it was sad.

But sad can also mean another thing, to me at least. I guess I use it as a replacement for 'pitiful'. Because it's 'sad' that I don't know the varying levels of happiness. Whenever I am happy, I am giddy. I feel like nothing can touch me from inside my walls of mighty positive feelings. But it feels false. Like a sugar or caffeine rush. It ALWAYS wears off, and when it does, something bad happens immediately after. That's happiness, for me.