Returning to the concept presented at the beginning of this paper, in an era when for many people the quality and longevity of life have never been better, why are there increasing levels of dissatisfaction with life? According to Thomas (1974), "there is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. The new consensus is that we are badly designed, intrinsically fallible, vulnerable to a host of hostile influences. We live in danger of falling apart at any moment and are therefore always in need of surveillance and propping up." Certainly health educators cannot accept all the blame for this contemporary fad; however, they may contribute to the phenomenon by implicitly suggesting that people are entitled to some idealized level of health and wellness which includes halcyon days immune from the pain and ravages of life in the real world.2+ Henry David Thoreau offered a perceptive view of how life should be experienced when he wrote: "I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
回到本文开头提出的概念，在这样一个时代，对许多人来说生活质量和寿命从未如此之高，为什么人们对生活的不满却与日俱增？根据托马斯（1974年）的说法，“这一切从根本上、彻底地说都是不健康的。我们似乎不是在寻求更丰富的生活，而是在避免失败、推迟死亡。我们对人体已经完全失去信心。新的共识是，我们的身体设计糟糕，本质上就容易犯错，容易受到许多不利影响。我们时刻面临分崩离析的危险，因此总是需要监督和支撑。”当然，健康教育家不能为这种当代潮流承担所有责任；然而，他们可能助长了这种现象，因为他们含蓄地暗示人们有权享有某种理想化的健康水平，其中包括远离现实世界中痛苦和磨难的宁静日子。亨利·戴维·梭罗在写道“我不想过不是生活的生活，生活如此珍贵；我也不想听天由命，除非万不得已”时，对应该如何体验生活提出了深刻的见解。（摘要截选至250字）
