How can the best things in life be a big mistake?

Question

Someone said, that the best things in life can also be the greatest mistakes but I can't understand how so please enlighten me if it's true.

Answer 1

It's a question of values. Western cultures particularly place a high value on material gains and prestige. The "best things" are seen as a new car, large house, beautiful wife etc. When you come to understand that these things do not bring happiness of a meaningful or lasting nature, you may become aware that the acquisition of them, and the exclusion of other aspects of life was a "big mistake".

Answer 2

The right to vote is cherished throughout the world. But look at the mistake most Americans made 8 years ago.

Answer 3

maybe an example of a girl getting pregnant in her teens...although she had to drop out of school and raise a child on her own when she could have had a lot of fun the child may give her so much purpose and happiness that she perhaps could have never experienced without that child...just a thought

Answer 4

well an example would be someone falling pregnant without planning it and it being the best thing that has ever happened... theres plenty of things!!

Answer 5

A paradox like this comes from choosing to believe two conflicting ideas.

One may be wrong. Or the other. Or both.

Answer 6

"The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random."

-- Heraclitus

this guy was an ancient greek mystic, known for being obscure and difficult to understand. some philosophers even called him "the riddler".

the greatest of things in life can only come into being thru mistakes. any concious effort on our part is necessarily rooted in human imperfection. the only opportunity for a bit of perfection to slip into our lives is when that concious effort stops. mistakes are the unconcious window to a passive-aggressive universe.

Answer 7

Yes. Since no man knows what is going to happen in the future...maybe everything turns upside down. But let´s go further. When can argue whetherr is there any "best things", but lets thinks that we all agree in what the best things are, to have a family, to have money, to be "someone". And maybe those things are not for you, maybe, like fame, they are not worthy. Pessoa, a portuguese writer, said in one of his poems, that happiness is what you believe the others are living, so if you are guided by what you see in them, and try to be like them, well... you can commit a mistake. So the best things in life can also be the greatest mistakes.

Answer 8

lets say for an example abraham lincoln, he got famous that he had enemy's, and then one of the enemy's shot him and he died. if he had not become president and gotten famous than he would have never died.....you see???

Answer 9

well, an example could be sumone who really wants to be famous...but when u r famous u have more enemies than ever! and more people who want u dead so that they can take ur place...more ppl who are envious!

and if the thing is a big mistake maybe its not the best thing after all!

good question *star*

Answer 10

i dont know

but maybe they werent the best things

or

you didnt preserve the best things in the right way