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Does one need to go through traumatic experience to truly appreciate living?

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Does one need to go through traumatic experience to truly appreciate living?
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RE: Does one need to go through traumatic experience to truly appreciate living?
May 14, 2018 at 10:32 am (This post was last modified: May 14, 2018 at 10:33 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Trauma affects people in different ways (obviously), so I'm firmly in the it-depends-on-the-individual camp. On a personal level, the two great traumatic experiences in my life don't seem to have materially altered my appreciation of how much fun it is to be alive.

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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Does one need to go through traumatic experience to truly appreciate living? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 14, 2018 at 10:32 am

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