the.com/sad
your brain's check-engine light, glowing soft so you'll finally pull over.
means Feeling unhappy, sorrowful, or low — the heavy weather of the heart.
from From Old English 'sæd,' which originally meant 'sated, full, weary' — the way you feel after too much of anything. It's related to a broader Germanic family (think German 'satt,' meaning 'full') and a distant cousin of Latin 'satis,' 'enough.' Over centuries the meaning drifted from 'stuffed and tired' to 'steady and serious' and finally to 'unhappy' — a quiet slide from too-full to downcast that's been complete for a long time.
- tears differ
- emotional tears carry more protein than onion tears
- slow motion
- sadness makes time feel like it's dragging
- music magnet
- people seek sad songs to feel less alone
- old word
- once meant full or satisfied, not unhappy
- blue tint
- sadness can actually dull color perception
titanic sinking — 1,500+ deaths when the ship hit an iceberg in 1912
chernobyl disaster — nuclear explosion in ukraine, 1986, rendered 1,000+ square miles uninhabitable
challenger space shuttle — 7 astronauts killed in explosion on january 28, 1986