It’s only natural to focus on what you were born with. All your talk is just academic theory—you’re ignoring the real world!
PHILOSOPHER: It is you who is ignoring reality. Does fixating on what you are born with change the reality?
We are not replaceable machines. It is not replacement we need but renewal.
YOUTH: To me, replacement and renewal are one and the same. You’re avoiding the main point.
Look, there is such a thing as unhappiness from birth. Please acknowledge that, first of all.
PHILOSOPHER: I will not acknowledge that. YOUTH: Why?
PHILOSOPHER: For one thing, right now you are unable to feel real happiness.
You find living hard, and even wish you could be reborn as a different person.
But you are unhappy now because you yourself chose being unhappy. Not because you were born under an unlucky star.
YOUTH: I chose to be unhappy? How can I possibly accept that?
PHILOSOPHER: There’s nothing extraordinary about it. It’s been repeated ever since the classical Greek era.
Have you heard the saying “No one desires evil”? It’s a proposition generally known as a Socratic paradox.
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