Cure for sadness

I believe there is no real cure for sadness. Being blue and down is just a part of life, as life itself has so many different dimensions. Seeing beauty in each and every one of them - now that is the real relief for anyone who's in a bad spirit. There is so much beauty to be seen in the world. In nature's creations, in animals, in people, in art, in science, in poetry, in relations. Being able to observe life with love and appreciation is the real key to having purpose and sense and hope. And joy.
Being positive does not mean you have to be ignorant or oblivious to cruelty and evil. On the contrary. Being conscious of bad sides of life makes you seak for a way of being able to make peace with this world and makes you understand the real, whole experience of life would be incomplete without being aware of its sadness and madness, and chaos.
When you approach the ugly, the suffering and the poor with love and compassion, you can feel the pain of creation as your own pain and your own pain as the pain of creation. You and the world become one and if you can express the feeling of connection in some sort of artistic output, you create a portrait of yourself enriched by experiencing the world and you create the portrait of the world seen through the prism of your unique eyes. Some of the best works of art there are give off this sense of connection, compassion and love, which is necessary for us to have joy and acceptance and understanding towards different emotions and states of mind.
I don't seek perfection, I don't seek motivation, I don't seek continuous high of energy and happy feeling. This is unreal to seek these goals. I understand life as a rollercoaster of emotions and ups and downs which is understandable given different sides to life and its many colours and shades. I do feel frustrated sometimes if I am not at high spirits and getting down. I try to have compassion for myself though, look down on myself with love and care, and remember that connection that makes me part of this colourful world. So have I got a cure for sadness? I don't. I just have an understanding that the universe has its sad parts and I, as its element, must have these too. Compassion and acceptance. These are my cures. And letting myself not being perfect. Being real and present, loving life and having peace. Now these I call goals. And ideals.
Peace