I'm not disagreeing with you. I think during any given day, people range through emotions and don't even notice what they are feeling. I can feel happy in one moment and unhappy in the next and there's hardly a pause between the feelings, and no consideration, really, as I move on to the next emotion. Ongoing joy and happiness is very rare indeed, and probably not well appreciated by those who are not having that experience. I think, a personal opinion, that people should write what suits them, which makes neither of us wrong. And that is the best of both worlds to allow for the fascinating variations. :) And it may be a misinterpretation (on my own part) of what I wrote that the person was miserable. An alternative may be that the "voice" is saying that there would be no more dependence on someone else making the speaker happy, which is a movement for this individual to go from regret over what was lost (and never was) to strength (of actively making things happen, or taking control, instead of passively hoping for a dream to come true that clearly will not happen). But of course, I could be wrong. I never really know what my writing is about. The voice that gave me the thoughts has left me for the day.