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[unij]

Which do you guys think is worse:

To live your entire life in unhappiness, or to live the first part of your life in relative happiness, only to have it all suddenly stripped away and the rest of it be unhappy?

Comments

[aviekokyre.livejournal.com]

This is like the item tied to the soul or whatever question you once asked, huh?

There are too many factors to do a generalization, and I can't really place myself in either situation to come up with an answer for me personally. I go back and forth and don't settle on anything that remotely suggests leaning one way or the other.

[bouncy-erbear.livejournal.com]

Gah, that's a doozy.

[taiga_ameca]

Unhappy all the time.

... I feel bad at the fact that I didn't even have to stop and think about it.

[theguindo]

I think the latter is worse, because having something and losing it feels worse than never having it at all. It's like being blind all your life vs being sighted and then losing your sight - if you never know what vision's like, you can't miss it. If you never know what happiness is like, you can't miss it.

[kiaxet]

The latter is likely the worse option, I'd imagine. If you're unhappy all the time, it's the norm - you have no basis of comparison. If you have happiness and lose it, though, you'll always remember what you had and will feel the loss.

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