Is there an Up Side to being Blue or Sad?

What is an  Inextricable Dimension of Pain?  Are these two things connected?

Firstly, inextricable pain is a trauma from missing someone beyond words.  It leaves one with an inextricable circumstance that seems to have no end.  It seemingly goes on and on and on. It appears hopelessly tangled unable to be sorted or processed.

 Sometimes seeing and hearing something remote from the original  situation is enough to trigger painful memories.  That is the weird part.  Sometimes its just a smell or a song or a word or seeing another person  that will do it.  Setting off a conveyor line of unwanted bodily responses to this stimuli. Leaving your head feeling like it's swimming.  Leaving you feeling kind of blue.


On a more positive note there is a theory that feeling blue produces certain qualities in people not otherwise found.  These qualities do have a positive because a correlation between depression and a particular type of problem solving were evident in studies done by a Swiss / American / German group.

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 450–490 nanometers.  I mentioned this in an earlier blog on the colour Blue.  I have been exploring the idea of this vibration of energy in the human body may show up as blue in Kirlian Photography .  Perhaps a blue hue is evident here when one is crying or feels like crying.

While I still don't know why,  I still find that Blue is still overly representative of being down or depressed, because in the English language, blue often represents the human emotion of sadness, eg., "He was feeling blue". In German, on the other hand, to be "blue" (blau sein) is to be drunk. This could derive from the ancient use of urine (which is produced copiously by the human body after drinking alcohol) in dyeing cloth blue with woad or indigo.

So still I don't know why.  It may also be in relation to rain, which is usually regarded as a trigger of depressive emotions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue

I think that sadness does produce results of a kind synonymous only while that emotion is present.  I have produced some of my best creative work while being in this state of mind.  Therefore I find it safe to assume that like everything else in this life  it (sadness) needs to be evident for balance where human emotions are concerned.  If one is totally happy and lifted 100% then there is a further need to find more happiness.  Such is the nature of the beast. (humanity)

Image by Mezza - The Bay is Blue.