Nancy from The Craft has no need for meditation. Credit: Tumblr.
Misery is one of life's great pleasures. Not just because it is easy, far more so than happiness, but because it is omnipresent. It's our one constant. It gives us purpose, along with its accompanying treats: angst, fatalism and complaining. Of course it's raining, it always rains. Of course you will repeat the mistakes of your parents. Of course you will die alone.
Despair also has aesthetic appeal, and compared to other modes of being (contentment, for example), a better soundtrack. There's a reason why goth is always fashionable.
