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Interesting thought. Alan Watts has one that's kind of in the same vein.
Imagine you could control every aspect of your dreams, what happens, how long, everyone and everything. The first thing most of us would imagine is 100 years of absolute pleasure. Fulfilling every fantasy we could think of. And we'd wake up and think, "That was pretty good" and we'd want to do it again. And again. And again. And eventually, you'd get a little bored. So maybe one night you have a dream where you don't know exactly what will happen. It gets your heart pounding again. That little excitement of "not knowing". And so, over time, you let less and less things be under your control. A little more, night, after night, after night, until eventually, you are dreaming the life you are currently living. Except you're actually living it.
I figured that out 13-14 years ago after I had figured out how to have a life with maximums pleasure and minimum responsibility. Additionally, I figured out lucid dreaming and literally did anything I wanted maybe a third to half of nights. It was hell after a minute. Completely unfulfilling. You gotta have a mission, something bigger than yourself to fight for, and it has to have a significant degree of unpredictability. That makes life fulfilling.