Is\u00a0‘happy ever after’ a thing we can ever actually achieve, or is it an impossible goal? Jill Stark started to question this after feeling as though the relentless pursuit of happiness was\u00a0making her miserable.\u00a0 She had everything she wanted, and yet she still wasn’t happy.<\/p>\n
\n“I had it all\u2026 everything had come together, then slowly things started to unravel.” – Jill Stark<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nBut from the epic unravelling of her life came\u00a0Happy Never After\u00a0<\/em>– a raw, funny and uplifting exploration of our age of anxiety. Like many of us, Stark lives in a world of opportunity, choice and comfort. Yet depression, anxiety and stress\u00a0are constant bedfellows.<\/p>\n“If you look at it from a wider cultural perspective, our entire consumerist western culture is based on that premise that we are not enough,” says Stark\u00a0. “But if you buy this car or if you have enough Facebook friends, then you might just be enough … but really we\u2019re the only ones that can fill that gap.”<\/span><\/p>\n“It\u2019s sort of like we\u2019re in a Truman-style show version of our lives,” Stark\u00a0continues. “Everyone knows the plot is flimsy and the set is paper thin but we\u2019re all playing along because we don\u2019t want to break that fairytale spell.”<\/span><\/p>\nThe mantra here is this: there is no quick fix or fast route to happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n
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