It isn't just a defect that needs to be removed to allow space for happiness.
Like pleasure and pain we need one to juxtapose with the other, to recognise it and to appreciate it.
We also sometimes need it for its own sake.
It is an appropriate emotion sometimes. How are we expected to feel if we become seriously ill, if someone close dies, if we lose a job or a pot of money? Unhappy.
The aim is not to let that perfectly understandable emotion take over to the exclusion of all others.
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