Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.
In Carol Shields' book "Unless," the concept of happiness is presented as a fragile element, akin to a lucky glass pane that one holds in their mind. Maintaining this state of bliss requires effort and skill, suggesting that happiness is not merely a given, but something that must be actively preserved and nurtured. When this delicate balance is disrupted, such as when the pane is shattered, an individual is thrust into...