Why This Contradiction?

WHY THIS CONTRADICTION? Man has to use the opportunities available in the present world per God’s creation plan and then become eligible to live amidst eternal joy in Paradise. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was an English poet. He once remarked, “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” It is a matter of everyday experience. Many people love to hear tragic stories. Popular novels are more often than not tragedies rather than comedies. Likewise, very often, those singers become popular who sing sad songs. Why is this so? Why is it that sad poems or sad stories succeed in striking the chords of people’s hearts? It is because every person, in practice, lives in a psyche of deprivation or frustration. In such a situation, a happy story seems somehow unreal to them. In contrast to this, a sorrowful tale seems more natural to them. If you study the issue in greater depth, you will realise that man is a pleasure-seeking being. In the vast