Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly.
Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.
Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.
All people are different. That's why everybody should be treated the same.