every life is unique - there is no one, absolute, universal standard
trying to find such a standard and compare ourself to it is what makes us unhappy in the first place
Well yeah, of course. I mean the starving children in Africa have beautiful lives if we don't compare it to others' who don't starve...
i have yet to encounter any starving african children around here
we all seem to have the free time and resources necessary to allow us the luxury of debating philosophy in an online forum
things can't be that bad
relatively speaking
I'd second thatI say 3/5 because at the moment life is okay. I don't feel particularly happy nor unhappy. I kind of just feel like I'm in the middle but a little more happier than sad if that makes sense? Idk, I just feel a bit more comfortable with life than I did say... 1-2 months ago.
Compared to what I think I deserve? I think I deserve exactly what I put into life, which is nothing. So zero out of five.
Wouldn't that give you a 5/5? The structure of your second sentence implies that you deserve nothing because you put nothing into life. Therefore, if you are rating your life based on what you deserve, and you are getting out of life what you deserve, based on the parameters of the question, you should get a 5/5.
In other words, you've suggested that you put nothing into life and so you deserve nothing. In this relationship, you are getting what you deserve...
If your life was a machine:
You put 0 into the machine---*MACHINE*---You get 0 in return
Your machine is working perfectly. You get a 5/5
This is all based on the assumption that you get "nothing" out of life.