personally, i prefer sweeter

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."

When I think about life and what happens and things that give us happiness, this statement seems to hold a profound amount of truth. If I were to paraphrase it, I would say that its not what's typical or on the surface thats really important but rather what is rare and meaningful. In this way I think we can, in a sense, classify certain experiences in life as either simply "sweet" or on the contrary "sweeter." With some exceptions, common tourist attractions are very interesting to see and usually make good memories with family and friends. These things that are obvious and well known are "sweet," but if you take some of your closest family and friends and hike for three days to find a massive, beautiful waterfall in the absolute middle of nowhere, miles from any civilization, then I would venture to say that that is the kind of experience we would value far above any simple tourist attraction and that we could easily classify as "sweeter."

I know that seems like a pretty far fetched example, so I'm going to try and put it in more understandable terms. Think of the quote "go not where the path leads, but go where there is no path and leave a trail." I see where the path leads as the heard melody, as a dream or experience that has already been experienced by someone else. On the contrary, where there is no path seems to me like an unheard melody, a journey not taken, or a dream not yet realized. With that, I think its fair to say that the path may very well lead to good things, that it may be "sweet," but also that where there is no path holds far more potential to be amazing and thus, "sweeter."