Even if you had polio, most people find a way to still find joy in life after coming to grips with the disease. We had a president who had polio.
Stephen Hawking's debilitating illness doesn't stop him. He still finds joy in life and has a happy, successful marriage in addition to being the world's preeminent physicist.
This may sound weird, but I kind of dreamed of living in a dystopia. I read of a lot of Gibson and Stephenson as a kid. Utopias like heaven frankly sounds kind of boring...no challenges or struggles to overcome or face.
A utopia doesn't mean there are no struggles. If you want to be a great guitar player or a master carpenter, you don't magically get those abilities.
If I could afford to be retired today, I could easily fill the rest of my days working on things that I want to work on. I'd love to learn more about cooking, learn another language, take up carpentry, learn how to ride a trials bike, get stronger, learn to play an instrument, work towards a degree in mathematics, volunteer in my community, get my amateur radio license, travel with my wife, work on my marksmanship skills, learn watchmaking, build electronics projects, join a bowling league, and on and on. I'm very fortunate in that I love my job, but it does take up most of my time.
