First of all, every human being has emotion. Happiness and sadness is just the mirror image of each other.

You are shutting yourself away from the people around you assuming that friends and family do not understand you. There is nobody in this world understand the other unless this particular person has some insight on the bigger picture.

Do not create expectations for other to understand you either. Relying on people to understand you is as good as pushing responsibility to others. Each of us is an individual, account for yourself, for who you are.

There is a story, a few people had gone hunting and they came across a camp of a great master. The hunters looked into the camp and saw the disciples were whirling inside the camp. The hunters thought “These people must be mad, how can people find out the truth by doing this?” There is no history, no record saying truth can be found by whirling.
At sunset, the hunters were on their way back, they were thinking, by now, a lot of madness must have taken place in the master’s camp. To their surprise, all the disciples were sitting inside the camp with closed eyes.
A month had passed. It is the hunting season again. The hunters saw the camp, it is still there. To their surprised again, the camp is empty, only the master is in. All the disciples had gone. The hunters thought this guy must be crazy, all the people had escaped.
So, they asked the master “Where are your disciples? When we were here last month, there are a lot of people inside this camp.”
The master said “They had danced, they had found, they had absorbed and they had left. They will bring the next batch soon.”

Try to un-learned the learned, once you are being yourself again then freedom is all yours.

© by Xunler at http://lifejourneyanswer.com
—The author XunLer is a disciple from a great master is practicing meditation since 1999. Self-searching is the real route of all life journey. You can find more of the work in http://lifejourneyanswer.com—