Just finished reading Nick Hornby’s latest novel – A Long Way Down (thanks James). His book starts with a quote by Elizabeth McCracken — ”The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don’t care what anyone says”. Considering that happiness and unhappiness are really two sides of the same coin – this duality – does it mean that the solution is in the problem itself? Built in the architecture of unhappiness is the exit to happiness?

It reminds me of my question a while ago to my classmate Mag (whom I miss dearly these days). It was crunch time and I could not get myself to focus and write my papers – asking her how she coped with this, she said: “just sit down and work, Lok. And don’t get up.”