reshuffling, here, and there

Here's a curious question for you. When it comes to games are you likely to restart if you get a bad deal? This could apply to something as common as solitaire but could also be relevant to pretty much anything. Basically my question is this: is the experience overall more enjoyable to you when you restart and things go the way you want? Or is there something to winning sometimes but losing others? You know, the "no happiness without sorrow" kind of idea.

I got to thinking about the way so much of the circumstances of our lives is entirely out of our control, from the very beginning of our lives. Would you enjoy it all more if you could have one big do-over reshuffling of the deck and things turned out more the way you'd like it?

I suspect that no matter where we are in life we'll feel the same about it in a lot of important ways. I remember reading when I was little: "'There' is no better a place than 'here.' When your 'there' becomes a 'here,' you'll simply find another 'there' that's ever more appealing."

Or something like that.