Why am I unhappy?

More wisdom from the sages:

"Anguish emerges from craving for life to be other than it is. In the face of a changing world, such craving seeks consolation in something permanent and reliable, in a self that is in control of things, in a God that is in charge of destiny. The irony of this strategy is that it turns out to be the cause of what it seeks to dispel. In yearning for anguish to be assuaged in such ways, we reinforce what creates anguish in the first place: the craving for life to be other than it is. We find ourselves spinning in a vicious cycle. The more acute the anguish, the more we want rid of it, but the more we want rid of it, the more acute it gets."
--Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs