Soapbox Speech: Wanting Greatness And Not Just Wanting Better

I have all sorts of tragedies to choose from of varying degrees of unhappy.  Mostly, I just want the bad times to transform completely into wonderful times like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.

I don't want to trade tragedies.  Why want tragedy when you could have comedy or romance? Why be the pauper when you could be the princess? We should all want what is great and not what was once only slightly better than now.

*Pay no attention to the lady stepping down from the soapbox and running away.  She is enlisting the aid of a hot air balloon to escape to a world with no color and strangely dreamlike characters. :D She may or may not be wearing silver shoes.*