Unhappiness is a potent feeling. It makes me move. You can't teach me with love, I can only be taught by fire. If I was happy all the time I would never change, never stir. For all that I hate being in the dumps, I recognise my motivation to get away from the dumps as the strongest force in my life so far.

And then I think, what do I know about unhappiness and the dumps? I'm just lucky.