#622 Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain- Lucia Perillo
A woman believes her husband is having an affair, and she is in a depressed state. She tries to sniff our who the woman is, but she cannot track the person down, if in fact she exists at all. In her depression, she hints strongly at suicide, but doesn’t seem keen on acting on the threat. At times she is serenely introspective:
“If you dwelled on sadness you’d never get even one foot out the door. What was sadness, after all, but the fibrous stuff out of which a life was woven? And what was happiness but a chemical in the brain?”
At other times she is snide and sarcastic:
“He would never bring his mistress to our house, though in fact I thought this might be all right: it’s a big house and we could all play cribbage after.”
The woman is in a very dark, depressing mental state. This is a pretty cynical look at marriage and infidelity, one I’m sure that is more real than those that suffer depression would likely admit to themselves. Not at all uplifting, but it is well written. This is the last story I will read from this collection (same title as this story). It was an overall good read.
Notable Passage: "The mind is a dog that the body walks on its short leash.”
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