pain first, or else how would you enjoy the taste of happiness? it is a really good thing though, if you dont feel bitter..you wont feel joy.

Once you have experienced pain, real pain, and then found happiness you would never want to go back, you'd hold on for as long as you possibly could.

When someone experiences pain first, he or she will be so relieved when happiness finally arrives.

Let's say I were to experience happiness first.

If I knew that pain were to come after, I would have a hard time enjoying my happiness because I would be stressed about the pain to come.

If I didn't know that pain was to come after, and then I experienced pain, the pain would be more fresh in my memory and I would remember that more than my happiness.

Now lets say I were to experience pain first.

If I knew that happiness would come after, bearing the pain would be easier knowing that there was something better coming.

If I didn't know happiness was coming, and then I experienced happiness later, the happiness would feel so much better in contrast to the pain (better than the happiness i would experience without pain). Also, the happiness would be more fresh and prevelant in my memory.

People are driven to be happy. They work and sweat through pain for money...for something that brings them happiness....for something to sustain happiness.

I don't think it is important to feel one before the other as long as we can distinguish the two. And distinguishing the two is what's important.

I choose "pain first" because in the end, i want to be happy.

Downvote me if you have a valid reason because i am ignorant. :)