[Rasklad]

Life is fulfilling, but you are not in contact with life. Old contact is lost, new has not been made. You are in a transmission, hence you are so dull, hence life looks so mediocre, sad, boring -- even futile. 



Says Jean-Paul Sartre: Man is a useless passion -- futile, impotent passion, unnecessarily making much fuss about life, and there is nothing in it... meaningless is life. The more you become enclosed in yourself, the more life becomes meaningless. Then you are miserable. Then misery has some other payoffs. 



When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is special in being happy -- trees are happy; so are birds, animals and children. What is special -- it's the usual thing in existence. Existence is made of the stuff called happiness. Just look! Can't you see these trees, so happy? Birds are singing. Happiness is a very ordinary thing. 



To be blissful is to be absolutely ordinary. The self, the ego, does not allow that. That's why people talk so much about their miseries; they become special by doing so. People go on talking about their illness, their headache, their stomach, their this and that. All people are in some way or other hypochondriacs. And if somebody does not believe in your misery, you feel hurt. If somebody sympathizes with you and believes in your misery -- even your exaggerated version of it -- you feel very happy. This is something stupid, but has to be understood.

There is a lot more to read:
When the shoe does fit - The Times of India