I agree with you Renee, we certainly tend to remember the sadness in our lives more than the happiness. You portrayed that wonderfully in this piece, and I absolutely love your use of metaphors. My favorite line is: "That a tale of a lost soul in some tragic misfortune is more memorable than a morning's sunrise?"

That's exactly the point of this piece. All i wanted to do was write a thought-provoking piece on the juxtaposition of happy and sad and end it with a rhetorical question.

This is a really good question as to why stories of sadness are more touching or memoriable than stories of life or happiness.           I think that sad stories stay with us because, as a reader, we invest ourselves in the characters and their lives as we follow them through their 'plotline', and when we lose them, we mourn the death of a well written character like we might mourn a living person (not to the same extent, of course).          On the other hand, when readers are left on a happy note, we are content that our characters are happy and alive, and that tends to satisfy us to the point of which the memories of the happy characters fade away, but the grief and longing for our sad character sticks around. Just my opinion! Loved this piece- five stars!^.^