You can smile and pretend to the world that you are happy with your larger-than-life attitude, but the ground reality would be something else all together. It's not about me, it's not about you, it's about all of us, only that the intensity of the suffering and the time differs.
When you see yourself at crossroads someday, don't think of absconding from reality, rather pick every piece of you that left you shattered and march on. Yes, pain in pleasure, because every distress teaches you a lesson in life. People come and go by, but what really stays with you is your inner true self that keeps whispering 'my dear, don't give up.'
"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other" - Laurence Sterne
