I can't believe it's not beauty

So this kid I knew once told me it's a widely-spread idea that you can't make art out of happiness. 

"It's flat. It's fucked," he gestured across his neck with one finger. 

"You know why, too. Happiness is this thing most people don't know even when it comes. Definitely can't discuss it." 

 Wow, I thought. This guy's dumb but I like the way he talks. 

Still, he pointed to something that is relevant - Do we as people run to fictionalize and mythologize our pain in order to transmute it into something we can use to move past it? 

Obviously yes.

Boring though.

More difficult and worthwhile to make those moments of glimmering beauty be borne into perpetuity.