Opposites Attract II

What can opposites consist of? It truly is mind-boggling. I have already established that unhappy, not sad, is the opposite of happy. Then one could ask, "Is there a polar end to sadness if unsad is an ill-formed word?" Conceivably, we could measure quantities of sadness by placing probes onto our head to measure brain activity. But how do we relate to the opposite of sadness?

A person, who is sad, cannot be happy. A person who is angry cannot be happy. A person, who is both sad and angry, also cannot be happy. To simplify the question, I'll hypothesize that unhappiness consist of only two components, sadness and anger.

If sadness and anger are scalar in quantum, then one what is the threshold of sadness and anger for happiness to begin? Reason for question being happiness could also be conceivably measured by sticking probes on our skull. If sadness, anger and happiness are all quanta of brain activity in various parts of the brain, then is it not possible that a person could be feeling sad, angry and happy all at the same time?

This might seem to defeat the hypothesis of unhappy being the opposite of happy. But it does not. For even at the end of unhappiness, one could say that the person is being "very not happy" in terms of happiness. So it is possible to feel sad and happy at the same time. Just that if you're sad, then the feeling of happy is not quite the same as we're used to.

But what if we are to classify happy and unhappy by a dividing threshold of quantum? And similarly for sadness, a person must achieve a certain amount of quanta of sadness before he/she can be classified as sad. Thus we can establish a correlated threshold to make sad and happy mutually exclusive.

But it still doesn't answer the question of whether there is an opposite for sadness. The whole exercise had only served to assume that sadness is singular in its scale. Perhaps the lack of opposite for sadness is that it is difficult to further split it in terms of emotions. I'll illustrate this with two examples.

Unhappy example :
Someone says, "I'm unhappy".
Another could ask, "Why are you unhappy?"
The reply could be, "I'm unhappy because i'm sad."

Sad example :
Someone says, "I'm sad".
Another could ask, "Why are you sad?"
The reply could be, "I'm sad because my dog died."

The difference between the examples is that in unhappy example the cause for unhappiness (emotion) is another emotion (sadness). In the sad example, the cause for sadness is an external event, not an emotion.

The person feels sad, because the external event is not only sad, but is also perceived by the person as sad. So sadness could quite possibly come down to a perception of external events, which in turn triggers or fail to trigger activity in the parts of the brain which is capable of understanding sadness.

Am i sad? Not if i see the good things in life.