Year 2024: An Emotional Roller-Coaster
Is it because of my recency bias that I've thought "this is the best year of my life so far" every year since 2020?
I really did think so in 21, 22, 23, and this year.
Of course, there's no technology available to me that enables me to accurately measure the level of my well-being in 2019, 2020, and all other years that followed, to know whether this year actually has been the best ever for me.
But now, at this very moment when I say “this year feels like the best one yet,” my 2024 is, really, actually, truly one of the best – just like my life is one that truly shouldn’t have been started when I think “my life is very bad, in fact so bad that it shouldn’t have been started, even considering the well-being of other consciousnesses than me.”
So I find Benatarian arguments like “all lives are bad,” “lives are actually worse than the livers of the lives think,” not convincing at all.
Who experiences that “actual” badness of their life?
No one!