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A Life Avoiding Pain for Writing
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- Realizing that I often missed ten happinesses because of a single pain, I eliminated the factors that stressed me out in my life.
- I realized that eliminating the causes of pain in life can bring greater happiness than pursuing pleasure.
- Especially for health, preventing disease is more important than pursuing pleasure.
People can be tormented by a single pain, even if they have ten happy things. I used to have something I really disliked, and after taking it out of my life, it became truly peaceful.
Agathe Thoma, die Schwester des Künstlers (1868)_ Hans Thoma (German, 1839-1924)
Everything is the same, but I feel lighter and happier than before just by removing one thing.
I never hesitated about whether or not to get rid of it from my life, but it was causing too much stress in my writing, so I decisively removed it. Anything that hinders writing should be decisively removed from your life, no matter what it is.
▶ You should avoid one pain rather than pursuing ten happinesses. The core of the passive theory of happiness is to minimize the causes of pain. That is, it is more important to reduce pain than to actively pursue pleasure. Especially when it comes to health, it goes without saying that preventing illness is more important than seeking pleasure.
-Kang Yong-su, *Schopenhauer for the Forties*, Yunobooks
