Unhappiness is Boring
The famous first line of the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy was a brilliant writer but I think he’s got it wrong. It’s exactly the opposite. It’s unhappiness that is monochrome, uniform and boring. Joy is lively and complex and filled with an abundance of variation.
