Miserably Realistic or Blissfully Deluded?

[BK]

Which would you prefer?

[Paladin]

Blissfully realistic

[BK]

I don't believe that was an option...

...and if it were I don't believe that's possible...

[Alan]

I believe it's possible to be content while realistic, and that contentment over a lifetime could be considered a blissful life. But this could all be semantics.

I get what you're tying to say though, BK. You gave two options. Which reminds me of a funny and painfully true story.

Picture back in the fourth grade, you're waiting in line as we tend to do and you over-hear some girls discuss the question, "Would you rather be smart or pretty?" One girl replied, and I vividly remember this to this day, "Well I'd rather be pretty. Wouldn't everybody?"

Fast forward to senior year. That girl who said she would rather be pretty is, to put bluntly, about as dumb as a sack of bricks even though she had gotten exemplary grades over the years and was appointed my graduating class' valedictorian.

[Paladin]

I just think you have it backwards BK. Life is amazing and a miracle onto itself. We are the ones who choose to look only at problems that really have significance to us alone. We are the ones who make delusions of problems where there are none to begin with.

Thats why I think you have it backwards. Our choice is not to be blissfully deluded, or Miserably realistic.

Our real choice is to be blissfully realistic, or miserably deluded.

[john]

I have to agree with that statement a little bit. honestly however being reaistic you will find out that the world to some degree can be a bunch of shit.
so it’s really somewhere between.

[Alan]

Miserably Realistic. However, could someone truly be miserable if they have become satisfied with knowing that they are aware of reality? Could someone be truly happy with the fear in the back of their heads that they are living a lie and something could come along and end this lie at any time?

Maybe in the short term the realistic seem miserable and the deluded seem blissful, but as time goes on I believe the nature of reality reveals itself regardless of how we choose to manage our attention towards it.

[BK]

The knowledge of reality is a consolation but not enough to make up for the lost illusion.

[John X a.k.a. Googol(istic)]

[BK]

I'm not entirely sure how that answers the question.

[Daniel]

haha :P that was pretty awesome

[Lakatos]

How does he do that with his mouth? How does he do that awesome jaw-harp-like sound?

[Daniel]

i don't feel any kind of emotional / psychological response can be defaulted to a perception AND be completely accurate 100% of the time ^^ by nature, living things attempt to adapt, some make it... some go crazy :P point being people have different methods of dealing with their emotions / outlook on the world depending on past experience / influence. in knowing about a lot of the crap that goes on out there, although i'm not really a believer in karma... i'm pretty sure that alongside there being lots of negative things, there are plenty of positive to go hand in hand ^^ and i DO believe it possible to focus on the negative subjects, whilst keeping a positive outlook in your dealings with them.
it's the same with everything though, negative usually (but not always) seems to shine brighter than positive... and even when that's NOT true, the majority of the time, negative seems to have a longer impact.
positive stuff = great! ^^ "i'm happy with this, right here and now"
negative stuff = something that needs fixing, "i'm unhappy with this, but it's not going away :("
that doesn't have to be the outlook ^^ but that i know, usually is :S more attention is given toward the disapproval of flaws, than the appreciation of benefits... which i don't suppose is a bad thing ^^ if only more people could be as Paladin first said hmm <3 accepting of the world as it is, and want to constructively impact something positively, as opposed to appointing too much of your reasoning to emotion / allowing the external too great an amount of leverage over your internal than is beneficial at all. rather than go on to mention anything more of stability :x i guess... :

Miserably Realistic would be my choice ^^ as i feel... learning to control my emotional response to the rest of the world would be the life i'd prefer :) over being Blissfully Deluded and... well when given the choice like this, and being made aware, i just wouldn't like to take the option of... what i'm assuming is "being closed-minded".