Choices...

At times,
We relinquish happiness,
to embrace hardship,
For the sake of those,
who cannot choose either,
but have to suffer one.

Yet at times,
we relinquish hardship,
to embrace happiness,
For the sake of those,
who can choose either,
but want to suffer none.

Why aren't there times,
where we can choose neither,
and suffer both,
Relinquish nothing,
to embrace happiness and hardship,
as if they were the same thing?