Avoiding Happy

Was it possible to have been depressed for a lifetime and not know it? Emily was about to find out.

“ Never being happy isn’t the same as being unhappy. Is it?” The line, spoken by the character Montgomery MacNeill, in the film Fame, hit her like a brickbat to the stomach. She would never have called herself depressed…but her healers kept bringing it up. Long ago, the first of the “serial abusive boyfriends,” had sneered at her, “Why…