(February 9, 2016 at 2:10 pm)robvalue Wrote: I suppose I can see that if you are still unhappy, you no longer have the consolation that there's something better round the corner if you grin and bear it. But it seems eerily similar to the idea of being drunk, and not being fully present in life anyway.
Of course, if you grin and bear it through a bad situation, then there will be something better no matter what you believe, however long it may take, because the only constant in this universe is change. Even when facing imminent death, you get through it and then the suffering stops.
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