A non-nugget

Last Saturday - I just remembered - a psychologist said something like, "We might have to deal with the idea that life isn't good or bad, it's just life." It might be a useful idea when you are in a bad way: it is bad to be told life is good when yours isn't. It seems as if one has a lot to live up to. The idea that things are what they are gives one a lease on the small pleasures anyway.

But it is a bad idea on the whole, something to say to someone, perhaps not inclined to think too much about it, who can nevertheless feel the bright side.

In some ways I can't believe it was quoted as a nugget of wisdom.