don't have to be happy. to be at peace and to accept is enough.
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl might help you with that. He writes about his experience as a concentration camp survivor and about how he had to find beauty in the worst of situations. In the end, he is said to have had more freedom than his captors, even though they had more liberty.
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