Life Through Rose-Tinted Glasses

How much greener the grass is through these rose-tinted glasses - Passenger, The Wrong Direction

This is one of my absolute favourite song lyrics. I love how simple it is, yet so clever and so powerful.

Seeing the world through 'rose-tinted glasses' means only seeing the pleasant parts of it. By using this phrase with reference to the idiom 'The grass is always greener on the other side' (its exact opposite), Passenger seems to be suggesting that by looking only at the pleasant parts of the world, you can rid yourself of the envy within the phrase 'The grass is always on the other side' and instead appreciate what you have yourself - 'How much greener the grass is'.

I love this quote because it shows how by taking a different perspective on life for a short period of time, you can appreciate what you really have.

But is life permanently better through a narrow-minded view of only the positives? By ignoring depravity, poverty and austerity can you appreciate the fortunes in your own life?

Evil defines happiness. Without the creation of the devil, would heaven seem so attractive? If Pandora hadn't opened her box, would we ever understand elation? Or would we just be forever content?

I am what some may call a 'philosophical drunk' - I often try to tackle questions of moral responsibility and the good vs the evil and also have existential crises when intoxicated. Anyway, the other day (when a little tipsy) I came to the conclusion that the concept of Hell is perhaps favourable to the concept of Heaven. Yes, in Heaven, you will experience luxury and eternal pleasure without the worries of life on Earth, but can you really be happy without being able to compare your eternity to something terrible or evil? However in Hell, you would learn to appreciate the small pleasures, much like in life. This sounds like a very strange thing to say, as Hell is designed for eternal suffering, but when being tortured in many different ways, there would be ways of comparing one torment to another. You may not experience happiness (in its strictest form), but you would prefer one thing to another, you would experience favouritism.
Personally, even if it is not better, I think it definitely sounds more interesting than forever looking at snow-capped mountains and watching angels flutter about.