We may often imagine a life free of hardships where, free from concerns of money, relationships and responsibilities, we are truly and perfectly happy. It is neither for better or worse that that world cannot exist because we know positive emotions like satisfaction, joy and so on, only by their opposite. “We strive to improve our circumstances, envisaging some endpoint of unbroken pleasure, without heeding Herman Melville’s warning that ‘there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast’.”
https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/misery-makes-happiness/
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