being sad is making you broke

I swear to you, never in my life have I met a perpetually sad person who has a good flow of life's pleasures. I'm not speaking only from personal experience but also in tune with the universal laws.

Being sad is one thing. We can't control it, not always. But being down is another. They don't coexist.

Perpetual sadness dulls perception. Not because the universe punishes you, but because attention narrows. When your mind keeps scanning for what is wrong, it becomes blind to what is right. Pleasure requires attentiveness. Gratitude requires awareness. If you are always turned inward in the worst way, you miss what is being offered.

Sadness can coexist with ambition, humor, even hunger for life. You can grieve and still act. Being down is inertia. It is resignation disguised as depth.

So no, the perpetually down do not have the same access to life’s pleasures. Not because joy is unfair, but because it demands participation. You cannot receive what you refuse to reach for. Sadness may visit without permission, but staying down is a choice repeated. And life, indifferent and precise, responds to the choices you practice.