Unhappiness goes by neighborhoods. And the reasons for the misfortune could not be more varied. Look if not what she answered in July, just before the elections, Isabel Díaz Ayuso to Abc: "Without Sánchez I will be happy." So there we have the president of the Community of Madrid unhappy because of the result of the elections. People, to achieve happiness, are capable of doing all kinds of crazy things. Director John Eliot Gardiner attacked a musician in his orchestra over the unhappiness caused by his mistakes at a concert this summer. Hugh Hefner, who had owned the Playboy empire, preferred to go deaf rather than do without Viagra, as it made him unbearably unhappy not being able to participate in the orgies that he organized in his house, as his widow has just explained.
The writer Helen Russell has compiled testimonials in her Atlas of Happiness to understand why we feel miserable and one of the conclusions of her work is that there are people who do not aspire to be happy, but prefer to be miserable. Russell gives a decalogue to achieve unhappiness: not having friends, overvaluing money, getting a job you hate, working all the time, pursuing perfection, spending a lot of time at home, not reading, not listening to music, hiding feelings and considering that optimism is frivolity.
Everyone has the right to want to be what they want, even an unhappy person, although it is not recommended for their physical and mental health. In the cases cited above, the director John Eliot Gardiner has asked for psychological help so as not to be so impulsive; Hugh Hefner died deaf as a wall rather than give up sex, although in the final stretch of his life he enjoyed both the great classics of cinema and his massive orgies, and Isabel Díaz Ayuso has decided to be the counterweight of the "anti-front". -Spain of sanchismo” and in Collado Villalba, with Feijóo in the front row, she offered herself as the relentless Joan of Arc of Chamberí to fight those who seek to break the country. Hopefully Marcel Proust is right, more melancholic than vitalist, who wrote that as soon as one is unhappy, one becomes moral.
