Ecclesiastes 7:2-3 - Pain

I haven't experienced sorrow in a long time, and if the author of Ecclesiastest is right, that means I haven't been learning much. C.S. Lewis wrote that "God whispers to us in our joy and shouts to us in our pain." But what we want isn't pain... we want to learn and hear God at the same time as feasting. I don't think there's a problem with that, as long as when we do go through sorrow, we sit down and think what we can learn.