So, a man (or woman) has lived in a slum all of his (or her) life. ( I am going to stop doing the gender neutral thing now as it is beginning to sound like a Monty Python sketch) This man is quite happy in his role in life without great expectations.
One day, someone takes him out of the slum and introduces him to the high life and he loves it. But then, he is told a few years later, that there is a possibility of his returning to the slum and, indeed, this comes to pass.
The question is whether the man is now
A) Happy that he has all of those memories which he never dreamt he would have and can spend the rest of his life happily re-living them?
or
B) Unhappy because he knows that he will never go back to the high life and maybe he even resents having been shown it because he was quite happy before?
or
C) Something else.
One day, someone takes him out of the slum and introduces him to the high life and he loves it. But then, he is told a few years later, that there is a possibility of his returning to the slum and, indeed, this comes to pass.
The question is whether the man is now
A) Happy that he has all of those memories which he never dreamt he would have and can spend the rest of his life happily re-living them?
or
B) Unhappy because he knows that he will never go back to the high life and maybe he even resents having been shown it because he was quite happy before?
or
C) Something else.
