WHY ARE DIFFERENT EMOTIONS NECESSARY?

In class we talked a bit about the machine that makes you happy forever but the consequence is that we would forget our past. Although being happy is great, being happy all the time isn't. The movie Inside Out shows that all emotions count and should contribute to an overall happy life style. Joy couldn't always fix the problems with happiness. Sometimes Sadness had to come in and make a memory happy with sadness. Overcoming hard situations is what overall makes us happy and stronger. We have to use other emotions such as anger or sadness to overcome them and in the end be happy that we did. If we were happy all the time (like Logan said) are we even happy? Happy would then become our normal and we would never really be happy. Something interesting I noticed in Inside Out was that in the child Joy or happiness lead the emotions, in the mother sadness lead the emotions, and in the father anger lead the emotions. This doesn't necessarily mean the mother is always sad or the father is always angry but as a child grows a mother is always worried or more emotional for them. A father tends to lead with strength or anger. Emotions are important and each takes the reigns at some point to help a person handle any situation.