Holography.

A friend told me today that he doesn't think he will ever be happy again.

It kind of makes me mad when people say things like that. It's usually people who haven't been through too much in their lives - and I'm not putting that down or anything because if they haven't experienced worse, then they simply don't know worse. And there is nothing wrong about that.
But the truth is that these people just don't realise what they have. They're too caught up in this crazy, insane idea of what they think that they want. They're so blinded by trying to reach for something more, something different, something exciting that they look past what they have now. Sometimes what you think you want at the time is not really what you need. And what you need is right in front of you.

I think you really need to be concious of what you have. Otherwise by the time you get back from your adventurous spiral of trying to find something better, you may just find that what you had all along was all you really needed.