We will always have the tendency to define misery objectively, which means projecting ourselves into these conditions according to our expectations and sensitivities in order to examine what would make people happy or unhappy there. This kind of observation, which appears objective because it disregards the variation in subjective sensibility, is, of course, the most subjective possible since it substitutes one’s own mental state for all other, unknown mental states. But happiness is something quite subjective.
