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Suffering is inevitable, but misery is not.

Misery is an abject form of suffering, wherein one subjects themselves not only to the raw physical and mental stress of an outside event, but also to layers of bitterness, dejection, and hatred that warps and devolves the world around them, eliminating any possibility of redemption, of change, and triumph.

We can avoid misery by simply remembering that in every moment there is a choice—a choice to do only what’s in our power to do, to remember what makes this life worth living in the first place, to eschew our preconceptions of the world and the people around us, to see beyond the nebulous clouds of our emotional state.