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Tragedy 

Michael McDonough Tragedy comes with things that one cares about. "There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it" (George Bernard Shaw). George Bernard Shaw says that the two tragedies in life are to get something you want and to lose something you want. This seems converse to what people would normally think. They would say that losing something is worse. What Shaw is saying is that when you have something, you may worry about losing it. Nothing in life lasts forever. If you fall in love with with a girl and marry her, either you will get divorced or one of you will die first. You may also not want something that you have. People tend to not want what they have, and want what they can not have. In this sense, the tragedy is that no matter what, there will be a period of sadness with anything that is desirable.

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