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Jan. 7th, 2003 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraDo you ever suspect that your life is some kind of zero-sum game? I wonder about this. The swings of my moods tend to be such that a particularly intense or exciting happy couple of days is followed by a particularly bad low, and, hey, spend a night feeling really really *good*, get food poisoning two days later...
I don't actually believe life is a zero-sum game, or at least I don't believe it *ought* to be, I really hate that theory and things that seem to be based on it. I believe the best happiness is self-promoting, and doesn't need misery as a contrast, and really Aristotle covered all of this much better than I could, there's just something about being really tired and yet awake with food poisoning that makes me feel like I must be being punished for something. And, like, rationally I know it's eating those leftovers, not excess, unwarranted happiness, but, gah, had been so psyched by the thought of maybe for once managing to reestablish an even keel after an emotional high without badness, and, yeah, I guess still counts, but, ugh... I bet even Aristotle was grumpy and incoherent when he had food poisoning, dude.
I don't actually believe life is a zero-sum game, or at least I don't believe it *ought* to be, I really hate that theory and things that seem to be based on it. I believe the best happiness is self-promoting, and doesn't need misery as a contrast, and really Aristotle covered all of this much better than I could, there's just something about being really tired and yet awake with food poisoning that makes me feel like I must be being punished for something. And, like, rationally I know it's eating those leftovers, not excess, unwarranted happiness, but, gah, had been so psyched by the thought of maybe for once managing to reestablish an even keel after an emotional high without badness, and, yeah, I guess still counts, but, ugh... I bet even Aristotle was grumpy and incoherent when he had food poisoning, dude.
