Unhappiness isn't about having more downs than ups. It's about going through life forever desiring something else. It’s a state of lasting discontentment, for different reasons at different times.

The degree of unhappiness may vary from person to person, and the prevalence of some of the principles may be more dominant than others. We're also deeply aware of the fact that there might be serious medical or psychiatric grounds for some people’s bleak life experience. Barring these conditions, the root cause of a life of discontentment is to be found in a combination of the following nine dispositions: