Why oh why do people want to be in relationships? The pain I'm seeing some of my friends go through now over relationships ending is so bad that no benefit can possibly be worth the anguish.
See, I don't know if I buy that. There's some truth to that logic (and it's one of my several excuses/reasons for why I don't drink, not even a little bit). But on the other hand, to borrow from the example that smarriveurr (whom you know, by the way...) offered above, I don't think sports fit that mold. I've never experienced true, deep pain from sports. But the happiness I felt this past October was pretty pure, very real, and more intense than it should have been if the joy were only a mirror of the pain.
Or, to get a bit more philosophical, why should a person necessarily strive to reach their extremes, their highest highs and their lowest lows? Unless there's some internal desire to do so, what's the benefit? And if a particular moment is the happiest thing you've ever experienced, why does it matter if it's the happiest thing you could experience (or closer to that extreme)? And, again back to my previous point, why would that necessarily need to be connected to experiencing extreme lows? Nope, not buying it.
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Or, to get a bit more philosophical, why should a person necessarily strive to reach their extremes, their highest highs and their lowest lows? Unless there's some internal desire to do so, what's the benefit? And if a particular moment is the happiest thing you've ever experienced, why does it matter if it's the happiest thing you could experience (or closer to that extreme)? And, again back to my previous point, why would that necessarily need to be connected to experiencing extreme lows? Nope, not buying it.