When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is your true nature. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Our true nature is to be blissful, but our ego does not allow that. That is why people talk so much about their miseries; they feel they become special by doing so.

People go on talking about their illness, their diabetes, knee problem, their sleep problems, even about their headache, their digestion problems, how special it is. And if somebody does not take interest in your miseries you feel hurt.
A miserable man can have more concentrated ego than a happy man. A truly happy man cannot really have any ego, since he can really be happy only when there is no ego. ‘You’ cannot exist together with happiness. You can exist only when there is misery. You are only there when the shoe does not fit. Have you ever watched any happy moment, whether you exist in that? When you are in love ‘you’ don’t exist; only the other person whom you love exists. When you see beauty, there is love and so you don’t exist, so there is happiness.
When the shoe fits perfectly, you are not, and you even forget the feet and the shoe itself. When there is no headache, there is no head. If you want to feel your head you will need headache; that is the only way. To be is to be miserable and not to be is to be happy, i.e. when the shoe fits perfectly. Thus remember our true nature and accept what is, so that Ego does not prevail and so you will be happy.