David Grey
8 min readJan 2, 2022

The World of Peter Pans and Tinkerbells

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.”

— Dostoevsky

Is there any end to the suffering we experience in this world? The nameless, faceless, emotionless, dread we feel hour to hour, minute to minute, moment by moment as we go about playing our roles? Here is the banker who wanted to be a comedian; he goes about reading his documents and signing his checks, realizing that the only joke he’ll be able to tell anyone is that of his own job. Here is the architect, pressured into his profession by parents, who dreams and…