Life span.

[Cramulus]

I enjoyed the OP, but will refrain from further comment for fear of being punched.

[LMNO]

I don't know, sounds like a placebo 

Your MOTHER sounds like a placebo.

[Number_6]

I've often contemplated how sort my life looks in days. And I think spending a night alone with that realisation is important.

But Ne+@uNGr0+ has an excellent point. The downs have utility as well, and will always occur. Best to figure out how to live with them, rather than in contradiction to them.

I don't know, sounds like a placebo 

It's a damn powerful placebo though, dude.
But I find we're being fed the idea from an early age that looking after your surroundings, going to work, and school is haaaaard. Think about it, you can make anything feel like a chore. Why not the reverse?

[Doktor Howl]

I've often contemplated how sort my life looks in days.

Nobody cares.   Seriously.

[h-town]

Life got you down? We got a placebo for that.

Don't like placebos? We got a placebo for that, too.

[Doktor Howl]

Life got you down? We got a placebo for that.

Don't like placebos? We got a placebo for that, too.

I prefer horrible drugs, thanks.  They make a pill for that.

[h-town]

It's a damn powerful placebo though, dude.
But I find we're being fed the idea from an early age that looking after your surroundings, going to work, and school is haaaaard. Think about it, you can make anything feel like a chore. Why not the reverse?

[LMNO]

Life got you down? We got a placebo for that.

Don't like placebos? We got a placebo for that, too.

I prefer horrible drugs, thanks.  They make a pill for that.

GRABBIN PILLS.

[Doktor Howl]

Life got you down? We got a placebo for that.

Don't like placebos? We got a placebo for that, too.

I prefer horrible drugs, thanks.  They make a pill for that.

GRABBIN PILLS.

What's funny is that it's true. 

[BADGE OF HONOR]

As a depressed person, I would say it's better to find a reason to gtfo the couch, no matter how "bliss ninny" one might appear, than to find a rationalization for why depression isn't so bad.  I've also found my mood improving since I stopped constantly focusing on the negative and instead emphasizing the positive.  If that makes me a "bliss ninny" then I don't care because it makes me better able to function.  So yeah, I understand the impulse to punch.

[Freeky]

I don't know, sounds like a placebo 

How do you suppose?

If you make an effort to enjoy the things you have to do, how is that a placebo in any way?

Kind of off topic, but I'm curious your reasoning.

Also, RE: bliss ninny: That's fucking retarded. Being cheerful is more productive than thinking about how much life sucks.

[Doktor Howl]

I don't know, sounds like a placebo 

It's your life, man.  If being miserable is your thing, go for it.

[h-town]

Hold the phone.. who said anything about being miserable? I didn't necessarily disagree either.

I don't know, sounds like a placebo  

It's your life, man.  If being miserable is your thing, go for it.

[Doktor Howl]

Well, then, state your case.

Hold the phone.. who said anything about being miserable? I didn't necessarily disagree either.

I don't know, sounds like a placebo 

It's your life, man.  If being miserable is your thing, go for it.

[h-town]

Well, to be honest I find that kind of philosophical outlook to be a placebo in many ways, albeit a good spirited one and not at all a bad thing to do. I guess that I understand that there is a myriad potentiality for enjoyment in every particle of reality and there is an element of active joy in enjoying the things you do. However, my point wasn't that it's impossible to enjoy cleaning toilets but that there is an element of ignoring those who clean toilets in living life to the fullest. Fear of death or fear of a meaningless life compels people to strive for better because cleaning toilets as a vocation is not ideal.

It's really more of a placebo for those who don't have to clean toilets as a vocation. Like, If you're a toilet bowl cleaner who doesn't clean toilets with purpose and contentment: your fault.

Not trying to be defiant, just sayin.