How do I overcome sadness? Once I realize that I am in control of my sadness, I am free to choose whether to keep this emotion or to mitigate it and turn this feeling, this energy, into something more positive.

I was walking along the street the other day, and it was quite a gray day. It was wet. It just rained and it was miserable to put it mildly. And I was passing quite a number of people and, gosh, they looked sad, really sad. The mood was somber,…