Talk:Meta Ability Creation/@comment-12762761-20131118042032/@comment-4867780-20131122093621

Even if you can hold your breath for over a minute, isn't it way better to just breath in and out however you want ? In the same way, even if you can survive without happiness (for how long ? and why even bother ? you'll die all the same), life remains unspeakably better happy than not. The oxygen metaphore is more relevant than you give it credit for.

The point is that you don't need to be unhappy to act, experience and achieve. Fact is, happy people are much more active, successful and overall alive than unhappy people.

The positive aspects of unhappiness are vastly exaggerated (sounds disturbingly like a compensation mechanism), practically speaking it's much more of a burden than anything else.