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Originally posted by Mantus
One can never have a happy life. It is the nature of happiness to always be beside sorrow. One can’t exist without the other therefore in order to experience happiness one must first experience a proportional amount of grief.
I believe that those who claim to have happy lives are are simply using selective memory or lying.
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Am I the only one who sees the inherent contradiction here? You say that one must experience grief before they can experience happiness. Then you say that anyone who claims to be happy is using selective memory? What? If they were to use selective memory, they would block out the bad memories (the grief), which would
disable them from being happy. That being said, i disagree. I am, by most of your standards, a kid...still in high school, still mooching off of his parents. I probably been through alot less grief that a lot of people here, but I am happy. Perhaps getting over hard times in the future will eventually make me happier than I am now, but I am happy. Kind of a "one step backwards, two steps forwards" type of thing, I guess.
Wow that was a long post