Would you like to always be happy?

[flake9]

For one thing, you wouldn't think its a big deal if you had to cancel an escort appointment.

If you had the opportunity to get a device (also known as a joywire) implanted into your brain so you would always be happy, would you go for it? It would be like you are always high on drugs and because you are living in a fantasy it would be hard to focus on anything real so you could never concentrate.

Always being happy would mean you are perfectly fine with bland food, a dirty dilapidated house and an awful job with long hours, although the quality of the work would not be as good since you wouldn't take it so seriously.

Abit of a thought experiment. If you have ever watched the film The Matrix, it is known as the blue pill.

"Take the blue pill and the story (of your life) ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe."

Or would you like to continue living in the real world, know the truth and experience all the pain in life? It would be pretty cool if polls could be done on this site. Fantasy vs Reality.

I personally don't know what I'd do. Probably fantasy if it means I will always be happy even if everything is a lie and never find out because a surgical procedure done to the brain is permanent.

[MarkM2020]

Definitely not ..
That would be like living on a vanilla level of everything.
A life so bland you can’t even appreciate its true flavours.

Life is like an impotent penis , full of ups and downs ..
When it’s up , you want to hop on quickly Cow girl and enjoy the ride ,
But when it flops , you suck the life out of it to try get
Things up and running again .

My view is to try live a life with “extended periods”
Of contentment.

Thats probably the best analogy I've ever heard. 🤣

[Dub Lad]

To always be happy would just become "meh". Without heartache, pain, sadness and loneliness we will never appreciate and experience happiness and joy

[philipkntz]

Its possible to feel pain and happiness, but could anyone know or enjoy true happiness, if they never experienced unhappiness, loneliness, heartache and misery?

[SteveB]

“If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.”

― William Shakespeare

[SteveB]

Never mind what The Bard says, if all the year were paying holidays as well as playing holidays I would be happy enough.

Better to be happy than to be miserable.

[flake9]

To always be happy would just become "meh". Without heartache, pain, sadness and loneliness we will never appreciate and experience happiness and joy

There wouldn't be a "meh" because the part of the brain with that feeling would be damaged beyond repair by the operation.

Brain damaged individuals don't think the same. For example, there are people who go blind because of brain damage and do not realise they are blind because the part of the brain that can tell is also damaged.

[flake9]

Yeah.... this sounds pretty made up.

lol, are you making this up?

When parts of the brain are dead, something so easy and obvious becomes so difficult.

A computer with its monitor switched off does not know as there is no code to check. Humans do, but if that code is gone then they don't know. I know its kind of hard to believe but if you think about it makes sense if the mind is gone.

If you didn't know about Alzheimers disease you'd think it's hard to believe someone could forget their children,

Anyway, back to my question, it is just a thought experiment. Joywire surgery does not exist outside of science fiction and would be illegal

[NewPuntDub]

Who wouldn’t? Being happy means living a good life.

[Onelastgo]

Nobody is happy all the time
You needs downs to appreciate the ups
This was tried years ago
It was called a lobotomy
Wasn’t popular
Aim for attainable targets
That’s the secret