how did it come to this?
happiness is a specific.
misery is a generalisation.
people usually know exactly why they are happy. they rarely know why they are miserable. misery is a vacuum. a space without air, a suffocated dead place, the abode of the miserable. misery is a tenement block, rooms like battery cages, sit over your own droppings, lie on your own filth. misery is a no u-turns, no stopping road. travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in front. travel down in at furious speed through the days that are mummified in lead. it happens so fast once you get started, there's no anchor from the real world to slow you down. nothing to hold onto. misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall. whatever your private hell, you'll find a million like it in Misery. this is the town where everyone's nightmares come true.
