No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.