Paradox

[0033232]

Have you ever had a glimpse inside someone's life, someone you knew way back when and maybe you were friends or just acquaintances or enemies, it doesn't matter, and that person's relationships, career, worldview, come across as so eerily pristine, all their loose ends tie up so neatly, that you can't help but curiously search for the holes and the

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[theiform]

Wow.
This is...pretty deep.

But it's so true. Even when something's so perfect you don't want it, you're always going to be jealous of someone with no loose ends...
And it's almost so odd that they're going to be so happy.

[0033232]

I've been feeling in recent months like I'm squandering my life, opportunity, ambition, and youth, away.

Everyone I know getting freaking married isn't helping any, ya know?

[dnangel000]

Happiness is relative; even ignorance can be bliss.

[0033232]

But where is that happy medium on the sliding scale between ignorantly blissful and intolerably disillusioned?

[dnangel000]

Are ignorance and disillusion really so far apart on this scale?

Are they not but shades in the tonal range of one's happiness: ignorance the lighter, raw disillusion the darker?
Convinced by their own reasoning, people may colour their lives with whatever shade they believe appropriate at the time.

Therefore, the happy medium is yours. It's wherever and whatever shade you want it to be.

In a saddle, in a book, in a wonderfully verbose LJ post. Anywhere.

I'm betting 10:1 that holy matrimony probably isn't one of these places.

[0033232]

How come ya always gotta make me smile? Thank you, friend.