Our family is particularly fond of the poet W.H. Auden.
In that spirit I’ve been reading Alexander McCall Smith’s book What W.H. Auden Can Do For You where he describes ways in which the poet changed his life.
In one section he shares how he now wishes he had discovered Auden in his younger years, because the poet could have taught him to set aside “unnecessary unhappiness.”
Isn’t that a compelling idea?
That there is “unnecessary unhappiness.”
Unhappiness we choose for ourselves the way we might select something we order on a website. Which also means, we have the ability to unselect it and to click delete.
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