It is better to remember the things that make you sad-like THAT ARTICLE, for instance-than to forget them, says Science, possibly because "it is the ability to store and reflect on emotional events that will 'relieve some or most of the sad feelings.'" Sounds about right.
No. FORGET THE SAD THINGS.
All this talk of babies in peril has made me think of the movie that can't be talked about because it made me cry so hard I had to stop it half way through and sob for a few minutes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152758/
Ugh. I need a cigarette.
I'm not going to click and just assume it's 'Baby Geniuses.'
WHY!? WHY DID I CLICK IT!?
It keeps crashing my Explorer, which I'll take as a sign from Above to STAY AWAY.
Oh my GOD, Tuna, *murdered-dad-spoiler-alert* please.
Dear Zachary ruins me every time I think about it. I cried for two hours straight.
I need a roofie, so I'll forget this moment.
Shut up, Science.
...which must make a certain awl editor very relived, all the time.
Well, there's "things that make you sad" and "things that cannot possibly want to make you do anything but kill yourself," e.g., my grandma's friend who, when her house caught fire, rushed in and saved one of her four children but not the others (or her husband). She spent the rest of her days on lithium.
There's this that science says too (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19891749):
"...contra-hedonic motivations are more likely to serve utilitarian ...functions" That's makes sense evolutionarily I guess. But also says "people are more likely to be motivated to maintain negative affect when it is accompanied by positive affect." OH??? HELPFUL