Winning and losing, losing and winning

Lets take for example that we sit on a NL400 table with 400$.
The first scenario is that we win a buy-in and we have 800$, but a couple hands later we lose it and we end up with our 400$ stack
The second scenario we lose our first buy-in, we buy for another one and win an all-in to finish up with a stack of 800$ (so we do not win or lose anything).
In both scenarios we end up with the same (0$ profit), but the feeling is not the same. In the first one it seems that we have lost, and the second one that we won.
I´ll keep thinking about these things and post more

See you!