Why We Need Miserable People

We, as the observer and as the protagonists of our own stories, can view life through whichever pane of glass we want to view life through.

“several assorted-color glass frames” by Daniel McCullough on Unsplash

My mom works at a nursing home and loves to sneak out scraps of food to feed the local rodents — chipmunks, red squirrels and the like — and has been doing this routinely. A…