xFrockx said:

I think if you look you'll find very few of the kind of people in your OP.  However, think about how horrible it would be if your life was that "good" or so you thought, then you have to come to terms with death.  I've thought about this could be something of an equalizer.  For a yuppie asshole, death is a huge fear, even a motivator for a lot of wasted energy, time.  For a starving african, being at deaths door might have a womblike comfort.

What makes happiness better than sadness, anyway?  What about those feelings in themselves makes one better than another?  Nothing, except our self centered notions on the matter.

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