Unhappiness a Virtue

Just when everyone thought unhappiness is a bad thing, I’ll give it benefit of a doubt. It is not at all negative. Excluding the synonym of unhappy with sadness, let just agree I’m arguing about lesser unhappiness. Unhappiness can actually motivate us. Let us say someone who unhappy with their appearance might actually try to improve their look, plastic surgery or such. Someone who are unhappy with their financial, will try to look for ways to increment it. Those who were unhappy with their government decided to use their right and fight for what makes them happy (read: Egypt).

In medicine, unhappiness for me is a golden virtue, except for unhappy patient who decided to litigate their doctors. Unhappy doctors might actually mean better outcomes. There once a time doctors who are unhappy about open surgery, so they developed laparoscopic technique. There once a time diagnostician who are unhappy with less specific and less sensitive diagnostic test, they developed better test. There once resuscitation protocol called ABC that recently restructured into CAB. A clinician who is unhappy with his patient health status will try harder to make it better. Unhappiness can bring better changes.

The only dark side about unhappiness is when the person itself decides to do nothing but whine. Whining is not at all analogous to improvement. It is a sure key to constant, instead of variables. Whining is counter-productivity. Whiners are hateable and ultimate loser. If you unhappy, you change it. Like what Gandhi said, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’.

Of course whiner will be unhappy and whine about this post that just rendered my argument as valid. You should be unhappy about yourself.