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As long as there is happiness, there will be misery.

Do you agree?

JCL.

nyingje, what if i say there is no such thing as misery? one man's happiness is another man's misery... it depends on how you look at life

no doubt, nyingje... it was just an observation. we often measure suffering from where we stand... that's what i think is the deeper meaning of what i said.

let me give you an anecdote to try and explain myself. a filmmaker friend of mine once wanted to make a 'different' kind of documentary film. he went to a slum and asked the children to make a film on what they thought was their biggest problem. he was under the impression that they would talk about how life was so difficult for them, very little money, scarce food, poor sanitation... all the things that we normally associate with slums - squalor, misery, a wretched life.

but you know what the kids made the film about? mosquitoes! according to them, mosquitoes were their biggest problem. for they didn't even know what it is to be poor. to be poor, or to understand what it is to be 'poor' you perhaps need to be rich at some point. otherwise you are neither rich nor poor. you are just living your life. a paradox...

i hope i have explained myself better

love,
reincarnut