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Saying "enjoy it while it lasts" serves no purpose other than to blunt a person's enjoyment of the the thing. They will already suffer when the the thing goes a
by TaupeRanger 4y ago
Saying "enjoy it while it lasts" serves no purpose other than to blunt a person's enjoyment of the the thing. They will already suffer when the the thing goes away...why remind them of their future suffering, causing double the suffering? If one person has a pleasant 15 minute call with their father as a result of reading this thread, but 30 people get depressed or anxious about not having visited their parents for too long due to the normal circumstances of life, there is a net loss.
- zasdffaa 4y ago> Saying "enjoy it while it lasts" serves no purpose other than to blunt a person's enjoyment of the the thing Does it blunt it, or make you realise what you have while you have it, and value it the more? Or are you right and I acknowledged that possibility in my pentultimate paragraph? I hear a lot of regrets about people no longer there, I hear very little of people saying how lucky they are with their partner/parents/others. I just don't know.
- kbelder 4y agoIf you're concerned about net misery, you probably should have refrained from posting like this.