1.Builds emotional maturity

Feeling sad can help us be matured emotionally. It can act as a shield to help us cope for future sadful events. However, according to an article in the Telegraph, the society today jumps into medications at the starting point of sadness without going through it. “A growing number of mental health experts fear the increasing tendency to take a pill to beat the blues could actually affect human evolution,” notes the article. Sadness also helps us learn from our mistakes, it adds.