The Opposite of Happiness Is Hopelessness

Hope is the fuel for our mental engine. Without hope, your whole mental apparatus will stall out or starve. Hopelessness is a cold and bleak nihilism. A silent realization that in the face of infinity, everything we could possibly care about quickly approaches zero. The avoidance of hopelessness then becomes our mind's primary project. All meaning, everything we understand about ourselves and the world, is constructed for the purpose of maintaining hope. Therefore, hope is the only thing any of us willingly dies for.