1- Be very accomplished and successful and have done a lot, but unhappy
(wrote world-famous books, wrote famous music, created famous artwork, built and designed skyscapers, became a dr/lawyer/CEO/founder of a fortune 500 company, etc)
OR
2- Have done not a single thing in life but you’re happy (example- you’re a HS dropout but married a woman who loves you and is a janitor now)
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I feel like #2 isn’t even possible for me because there’s something about stagnation/mediocrity that hurts worse than even failure.
So by a process of elimination I’m stuck with option #1. I guess there’s always option #3 suicide, which is probably where I’d end up if I chose either 1 or 2.