Two Roads

Could you imagine being someone else? Taking your soul, mind, and memories and placing them into another person, whether they really exist or not? I don't mean roleplay characters, I mean a completely different person with a completely different life. Could you? Is your life so horrible that you would throw it all away and completely change who you are?

Should you answer yes, I have nothing but the utmost pity for you. You envy someone else so much that you covet not their money, nor property, nor social standing, but their very life. You despise your own life so much that you wish to erase it completely for another. I fail to comprehend such a tortured heart. Yes, many people suffer and many lead horrifying lives, but without suffering, happiness has no meaning. If everything were handed to you on a silver platter, if would bring you no joy. Not unless that silver platter had taken years to obtain and even more time for whatever was upon it. Likewise, pain could not exist without even the smallest measure of bliss, however short. Without one, the other has no meaning. Pain and happiness. Darkness and light. Cold and warmth. Chaos and order. The very definition of one is merely the absence of the other. Without one, the other is simply there, but at the same time is not. Personally, I believe that any life, no matter how terrible, still has something to live for. Any hope of happiness, however brief, is worth seeing the sun rise again for.

Should you answer no, then in my books, you are happy. You hopefully understand what true values are. Even if you possess an evil heart, you have not given up on yourself and for that, I commend you.