Let’s suppose, for an instant, that you could have your life exactly the way you want it, but only for a week.
For one week, magically your life would become perfect in every aspect, to the point where there is absolutely nothing else that you could desire in order to make your life better.
After the week is finished, however, your life would go back to normal, and the only person with any recollection of the week’s events would be yourself.
The price for this perfection? Nothing. It’s a free service. The conditions?
1. You can only have it done once.
2. You cannot split up the week into seven days spaced out throughout your life.
3. The change must begin right now. You cannot wait ten or twenty years to accept. You must accept or reject right now.
Would you, or would you not accept this?
A simple question, but a terrible one as well. The situation is lose/lose.
If you accept, then you will have the time of your life, and realize every aspiration and dream that you have ever had. When it is over, unfortunately, it will have been exactly like a dream, since you will be the only one to remember what happened. Even worse, perhaps, is the fact that you will never in your lifetime have as much joy in your life as you had during that one week. The best days of your life will be behind you.
If you reject, then you will never know what you missed. Your sense of curiosity can never be fulfilled, since you cannot take up this offer again at a later time. As such, your curiosity will eat at you constantly, and the longer it remains unchecked, the more it will grow and consume. Even worse, perhaps, is the fact that even though your best days are still ahead of you, you know deep down that your life can never be perfect, and that you can never have what you want in life.
In case one, you may be driven to suicide.
In case two, you may be driven to insanity.
In either case, you will be unhappy.
Since we in the real world do not have such a choice, were are kept constantly confused.
We wonder: "Are my best days ahead of me, or have they already passed?", and we have no way of knowing the answer.
We realize that we are ultimately unable to seize the type of life that we want.
We will never be truly satisfied with our lives, because it is human nature to always desire more out of life, even when "more" is impossible, for whatever reason.
If we can never be satisfied, then what is the point of living?
It is a rather disquieting thought, my friends.
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